Robert Lascoe
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Robert Lascoe (1715 – 1771) was a native of Bromley in Kent. He was a noted English cricketer of the mid-18th century who played for the Bromley club and for Kent. He also represented All-England. Lascoe is known to have made horse collars for a living.
Robert Lascoe is first recorded in June 1745 when he played for Robert Colchin's XI versus Richard Newland's XI at the Artillery Ground, his team winning by "over 70 runs".
He is last heard of in 1748 when he was part of a Bromley team taking part in a "fives" tournament at the Artillery Ground.
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- At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742 – 1751 by F S Ashley-Cooper in Cricket Magazine (1900) (ASW)
- Cricket Scores 1730 - 1773 by H T Waghorn (WCS)
- Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket by G B Buckley (FL18)
- Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket by G B Buckley (FLPV)
- Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 by Arthur Haygarth (SBnnn)
- Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century by Timothy J McCann (TJM)
- The Dawn of Cricket by H T Waghorn (WDC)
