{{short description|English cricketer}} {{For|the British military officer|Augustus Orlebar}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = Augustus Orlebar 1912.jpg | country = England | fullname = Augustus Orlebar | birth_date = 14 June 1824 | birth_place = Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire,<br>England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1912|9|30|1824|6|14}} | death_place = Willington, Bedfordshire, England | heightft = | heightinch = | nickname = | family = | batting = Unknown | bowling = | role = | club1 = Oxford University | year1 = 1845 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 1 | runs1 = 1 | bat avg1 = 0.50 | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 1 | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1 = –/– | date = 6 July | year = 2020 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/18375.html Cricinfo }}
'''Augustus Orlebar''' (14 June 1824 – 30 September 1912) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.
The son of Robert Charles Orlebar, he was born in June 1824 at Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire.<ref name="OXON">{{cite book |title=Alumni Oxonienses |date=1891 |first=Joseph |last=Foster |chapter=Orlebar, Augustus |publisher=Parker and Company |pages=1328 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alumni_Oxonienses:_the_Members_of_the_University_of_Oxford,_1715-1886/Orlebar,_Augustus |language=en}}</ref> He was educated at Rugby School,<ref>{{cite book |title=The Rugby register, from the year 1675 to the present time |date=1847 |publisher=Rugby School |pages=259 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b8oHAAAAQAAJ |language=en}}</ref> where he is considered to have been a candidate for the basis of the character Tom Brown in Thomas Hughes' ''Tom Brown's School Days'',<ref name="OBIT">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/10/01/archives/real-tom-brown-dies-hero-of-rugby-fight-mr-orlebars-death-recalls.html |title=Real Tom Brown Dies Hero of Rugby Fight; Mr. Orlebar's Death Recalls the Famous Bout in "Tom Brown's Schooldays." |date=1912-10-01 |work=The New York Times |page=5 |accessdate=2020-07-06}}</ref> though Hughes' brother, George, seems a more plausible candidate.<ref name="NEWS">{{cite news|url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/20th-december-1913/20/the-characters-in-tom-browns-school-days-s |title=Characters in Tom Brown's School Days |page=20 |date=1913-12-20 |work=The Spectator |accessdate=2020-05-14}}</ref> From Rugby, Orlebar went up to Wadham College, Oxford.<ref name="OXON"/> While studying at Oxford, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Oxford University against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Oxford in 1845.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/37/37424/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Augustus Orlebar |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-07-06 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed in the Oxford first innings for a single run by William Lillywhite, while in their second innings he was dismissed without scoring by the same bowler.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/0/735.html |title=Oxford University v Marlyebone Cricket Club, 1845 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2020-07-06 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
After graduating from Oxford, Orlebar took holy orders in the Church of England. He was appointed rector of Farndish in Bedfordshire from 1852 to 1858, before serving as vicar of Willington from 1858 until his death there in September 1912.<ref name="OXON"/><ref name="NEWS"/> His grandson, also called Augustus, was an air vice-marshal in the Royal Air Force.
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