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Tom Rushby

English cricketer (1880-1962)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ16000378 ↗
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Thomas Rushby (6 September 1880 – 13 July 1962) was an English cricketer. He was a right-arm fast-medium bowler who played for Surrey from 1903 to 1921. In all first-class matches, he took 954 wickets at an average of 20.58. In his final season, he took all ten wickets for 43 runs in the Somerset first innings at Taunton.

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“Tom Rushby” enters the record as english cricketer (1880-1962). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rushby, English and cricketer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1880, 1962, 1903, 1921—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1880-09-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rushby, English and cricketer.
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“Tom Rushby” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rushby, English and cricketer provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16000378. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1880, 1962, 1903 and 1921.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tom Rushby” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.