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{{short description|English cricketer, railwayman, and soldier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Arthur Rumboll
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Arthur Charles Rumboll
| birth_date = 20 August 1869
| birth_place = [[West Grimstead]], [[Wiltshire]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1935|7|31|1869|8|20|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Weybridge]], [[Surrey]], England
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling =
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1901/02
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 17
| bat avg1 = 8.50
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 12
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| date = 2 January
| year = 2024
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/arthur-rumboll-33302 Cricinfo
}}

'''Arthur Charles Rumboll''' {{postnominal|OBE|CIE}} (20 August 1869 – 31 July 1935) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and a figure in the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]].

The son of Charles Large Rumboll, was born in August 1869 at [[West Grimstead|West Grimstead, Wiltshire]]. Rumboll worked for the [[Rail transport in India|railways in British India]], beginning his career with the [[Indian Midland Railway]] and gaining a military commission in the [[Midland Railway Volunteer Rifles]] as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in April 1892,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002922/18920427/095/0018|title=Promotion|work=Englishman's Overland Mail|location=[[Kolkata|Calcutta]]|page=18|date=27 April 1892|access-date=2 January 2024|url-access=subscription|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> with promotion to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] following in October 1894.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003197/18941031/063/0015|title=Promotions|work=Indian Daily News|location=Calcutta|page=15|date=31 October 1894|access-date=2 January 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> A further promotion to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] followed in July 1898,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003221/18980706/069/0007|title=Promotions|work=[[Civil and Military Gazette]]|location=[[Lahore]]|page=7|date=6 July 1898|access-date=2 January 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> The Indian Midland Railway was succeeded by the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]] in [[Mumbai|Bombay]], for whom Rumboll was a deputy manager.<ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage|date=1921|publisher=[[Dean & Son]]|location=[[London]]|page=52|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=430rhznNVhoC|language=en}}</ref> He was made an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in the [[1918 Birthday Honours (OBE)|1918 Birthday Honours]], at which point he held the position of general traffic manager with the railway.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30730|date=4 June 1918|page=6716|supp=y}}</ref> In the [[1921 New Year Honours]], he was appointed a Companion of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]], holding the position of acting agent with the railway.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32178|date=1 January 1921|page=7|supp=y}}</ref>

While in India, Rumboll played [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]], making a single appearance against the [[Parsis cricket team|Parsees]] at [[Bombay Gymkhana|Bombay]] in the 1901–02 [[Bombay Tournament (cricket)|Bombay Presidency Match]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14484/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Arthur Rumboll|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2 January 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 12 runs in the Europeans first innings by [[Kekhashru Mistry]], while in their second innings he was dismissed for 5 runs by [[Ardeshir Mehta]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5817.html|title=Europeans v Parsees, Bombay Presidency Match 1901/02|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2 January 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Rumboll later retired to England, where he died at [[Weybridge]] in July 1935.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003221/19350803/066/0006|title=Obituaries|work=Civil and Military Gazette|location=Lahore|page=6|date=3 August 1935|access-date=2 January 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=33302}}

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[[Category:1869 births]]
[[Category:1935 deaths]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Wiltshire]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire]]
[[Category:19th-century English sportsmen]]

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