Michael Barton (cricketer), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1914
Date of Death: 01-Jul-2006
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Michael Barton (cricketer)
- Michael Richard Barton (14 October 1914 at East Dereham, Norfolk, England – 1 July 2006 in England) was an English first-class cricketer.
- A right-handed batsman, in a first-class career lasting from 1935 to 1955, he scored 5965 runs at 25.82, with 7 hundreds and a highest score of 192. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and appeared for Oxford University from 1935 to 1937, winning a Blue in the latter two years.
- He also played for Norfolk in the Minor Counties Championship from 1933 to 1947. After his Oxford days his first-class career appeared to be over, but Surrey found themselves short of a captain (who in those days by convention had to be an amateur) and approached him.
- He captained them in some games in 1948, and was the official club captain from 1949 to 1951.
- Surrey were the joint County Champions with Lancashire in 1950. He was Surrey President in 1983.
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