Robert Poore

Robert Poore

Player information
Batting style	Right handed
Bowling style	-
International games
National team	South Africa
National teams
Years	team
1892/93 - 1894/95	Europeans
	natal
1898-1906	Hampshire
	Europeans
Career statistics
Game form	Testing	FC
Games	3	55
Runs (total)	76	3441
Batting average	12.66	38.66
100s / 50s	0/0	11/12
Highscore	20th	304
Balls	9	470
Wickets	1	13
Bowling Average	4.00	19.38
5 wickets in innings	0	0
10 wickets in play	0	0
Best bowling performance	1/4	2/10
Catches / stumpings	3 / -	38 / -
Source: Cricinfo ,

Robert Montagu Poore , CIE , DSO , DL (born March 20, 1866 in Blackrock , County Dublin , † July 14, 1938 in Boscombe , Hampshire ) was a British brigadier general and cricketer .

Life

Poore was the third of seven children of Major Robert Poore and his wife Juliana Benita Lowry-Corry, daughter of Rear Admiral Armar Lowry-Corry . He himself completed an officer training and in 1883 became a lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion of the Wiltshire Militia Regiment , in which he served in the 1st Battalion in 1886. After he was transferred to the 7th Queen's Own Hussars Cavalry Regiment in 1886 , he served in British India between 1886 and 1895 and was most recently aide-de-camp of the Governor of Bombay from 1892 to 1895 . He then served in South Africa from 1895 to 1906 , where he became Chief of Staff in Natal in 1896 . He took part in the Second Matabele War between 1896 and 1897 and was mentioned there for the first time in the war report due to his military achievements ( Mentioned in dispatches ) . In 1898 he was promoted to captain . He then took part in the Second Boer War as Provost Marshal of the South African Field Force between 1899 and 1902 and was mentioned three more times in the war report because of his military service there. He was also awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1900 and promoted to Major in 1901 .

After his promotion to lieutenant colonel in 1911, Poore served again in British India from 1911 to 1919 and was commander of the 7th Queen's Own Hussars cavalry regiment between 1911 and 1915 , in which he was promoted to colonel in 1914 . He was then commander of the Jhansi Brigade from 1915 to 1919 and became Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1918 . For his services in the First World War he was mentioned again in the war report. In 1921 he left active military service and retired. He was also temporarily justice of the peace JP (Justice of the Peace) and Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of the county of Dorset .

During his time in India he discovered the game of cricket for himself. So he played there for the Europeans first-class cricket games . His transfer to South Africa followed three test cricket appearances for South Africa in which he achieved a batting average of 12.66. He also played for Natal during this time . On his return to England in 1898 and 1899 he played first-class cricket again, this time for Hampshire . In 1900 he was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year . On his return to India he played again for the Europeans. During his entire class period, he had a batting average of 38.66.

On September 29, 1938 he married Lady Flora Maria Ida Hamilton, daughter of Captain Charles Henry Hamilton and Elizabeth Anne Hill and younger sister of Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton .

Web links

• Entry in the Liddell Hart Military Archives at King's College London
• Brig. Gen. Robert Montagu Poore on thepeerage.com , accessed March 17, 2018.
• Entry on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robert Poore ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved March 18, 2018.