{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Infobox person | name = Robert Edward Hartwell Baily | birth_date = 6 June 1885 | death_date = 19 September 1973 | occupation = Cricketer }} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=February 2015}} '''Robert Edward Hartwell Baily''' CBE (6 June 1885 – 19 September 1973) was an English cricketer of Surrey and Cambridge University. A gentlemen cricketer, Baily played for Surrey and Cambridge between 1904 and 1908.<ref name="capro">{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/27/27608/27608.html | title=Player Profile: Robert Baily | publisher=CricketArchive | accessdate=16 April 2014}}</ref> He was also captain of Harrow School's First XI during his time there, as well as his own representative team: REH Baily's XI; he played for Gentlemen of England in 1905 and the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1909.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/27/27608/all_teams.html | title=Teams Played For | publisher=CricketArchive | accessdate=16 April 2014}}</ref> Born in Limpsfield, Surrey, where his father ran a preparatory school, he died in Hereford.<ref name="capro" />
His father, Edward Baily, played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and Middlesex.
On leaving Cambridge, Baily joined the Sudan Political Service and served there 1909–32, including as governor of Kassala Province 1926–32.<ref>[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U151948 BAILY, Robert Edward Hartwell], ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014</ref>
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