{{short description|English clergyman and cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} '''Charles Henry Luxton''' (19 January 1861 – 17 October 1918) was an English clergyman and a cricketer who played in two first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University in 1881 and 1882.<ref name="ca">{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31109/31109.html| title = Charles Luxton | publisher = CricketArchive | accessdate = 19 August 2014}}</ref> He was born at Bondleigh, Devon and died at St Pancras, London.
Luxton was educated at Devon County School, West Buckland and at Peterhouse, Cambridge.<ref name="venn">{{cite web | url = https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri04univuoft#page/242/mode/2up | title = Alumni Cantabrigienses: Charles Luxton | author = J. Venn and J. A. Venn | volume = Part 4| page = 242 | publisher = Cambridge, University Press | accessdate = 19 August 2014}}</ref> In his two first-class cricket games, he was a tail-end batsman and a bowler, and neither his batting nor his bowling style are known; he made little impression in either game.<ref name="ca"/> In minor cricket, he played for Devon and other amateur sides through to the mid-1880s.
Luxton graduated from Cambridge University in 1883 and was ordained as a priest in the Church of England.<ref name="venn"/> He was curate at Lifton, Devon and Milverton in Somerset before becoming the vicar of Langford Budville, Somerset in 1894, where he remained until his death.<ref name="venn"/>
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