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Clifton College.
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Edward Roper
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Career
He played twenty eight games for Lancashire County Cricket Club from 1876 to 1878, and five matches for Yorkshire from 1878 to 1880. He also appeared for Gentlemen of the North (1879) and Liverpool and District (1891-1893) in first-class games and for Gentlemen of Liverpool (1884) and Gentlemen of Liverpool and District (1887) in non first-class matches. He played his cricket with the Richmond, York and Yorkshire Gentlemen Clubs, but it was only after he moved to Liverpool and had established himself as the secretary and captain of Sefton Community College that he was to make his first-class debut, for Lancashire in 1876.
A right-handed batsman, he scored 715 runs at 12.76, with a best of 68 against Middlesex.
His other half century, a knock of 65, came against Kent. He took nine catches in the field
He bowled only nine balls, but took a wicket, against Yorkshire, at the cost of six runs. In 1893, he left Sefton to become the secretary of the Liverpool Cricket Club, a position he held until 1920.
He first came to Liverpool when he went into a shipping business, which proved unsuccessful, but became so deeply involved in Liverpool society that he never left.
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Roper was born in Richmond, Yorkshire, England, and educated at Clifton College, where he was a member of the cricket eleven.
