Claude Burton (cricketer)

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Robert Claude Burton was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Yorkshire.

Burton was born at Bridlington Quay in East Yorkshire on April 11, 1891, the younger brother of Cecil Burton, who captained Yorkshire at cricket after the First World War. Burton was educated at Malvern College and appeared in several matches for Oxford University from 1911 to 1914, without ever becoming a regular player. In the 1914 season, he made two appearances for Yorkshire, scoring 47 in his first match against Somerset and taking useful wickets in the second against Gloucestershire. After the war, Burton played only two more first-class matches: once for the Demobilised Officers' side against a combined Army and Navy team at Lord's in 1919, and then, in 1928, for the amateur Harlequins team that played the 1928 West Indies tourists at Eastbourne.

Burton was a right-handed batsman who usually batted in the lower middle order, though in his final game he opened the innings. He also bowled right-arm medium-fast.

He became a house master and was in charge of the cricket at Eastbourne College and died nearby at Stone Cross, Pevensey, East Sussex, on April 30, 1971.