{{short description|English cricketer and solicitor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = | country = England | fullname = Robert Lionel Whitby | birth_date = 29 October 1928 | birth_place = Kolkata, Bengal Presidency,<br>British India | death_date = January 2003 (aged 74) | death_place = Portsmouth, Hampshire, England | nickname = | family = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm medium-fast | role = | club1 = Cambridge University | year1 = 1950 | club2 = Marylebone Cricket Club | year2 = 1957 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 2 | runs1 = 23 | bat avg1 = 11.50 | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 12 | deliveries1 = 228 | wickets1 = 0 | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1 = –/– | date = 28 September | year = 2021 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22896.html Cricinfo }}
'''Robert Lionel Whitby''' {{postnominal|MVO}} (29 October 1928 – January 2003) was an English first-class cricketer.
The son of Robert James Lawrence Whitby, he was born in British India at Calcutta in October 1928. He was educated in England at Charterhouse School, before going up to Caius College, Cambridge.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Cambridge University List of Members for the Year 1991 |date=1991 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=1452 |isbn=978-0-521-43468-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05AcAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> While studying at Cambridge, he played one first-class cricket match for Cambridge University Cricket Club against Essex at Fenner's in 1950. Seven years later he made a second appearance in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Scotland at Aberdeen.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33778/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Robert Whitby|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-09-28|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He scored 33 runs in these two matches,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33778/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Robert Whitby|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-09-28|url-access=subscription}}</ref> while with his right-arm medium-fast bowling, he bowled 38 wicket-less overs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33778/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Robert Whitby|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-09-28|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Whitby was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th Class in the 1968 New Years Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=44484|date=29 December 1967|page=5|supp=y}}</ref> Whitby died at Portsmouth in January 2003.
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