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{{Short description|English cricketer and British Indian Army officer (1884–1938)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = Austin Carlos Bird
| birth_date = 26 January 1884
| birth_place = [[Croxteth]], [[Lancashire]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1938|1|4|1884|1|26|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Buxted]], [[Sussex]], England
| nickname =
| family = [[George Bird (cricketer)|George Bird]] (father)<br>[[Morice Bird]] (brother)<br>[[Alan Bird (cricketer)|Alan Bird]] (son)<br>[[Walter Bird (cricketer)|Walter Bird]] (uncle)<br>[[Charles Clarke (Surrey cricketer)|Charles Clarke]] (uncle)
| batting = Unknown
| bowling =
| role =
| club1 = [[Marylebone Cricket Club]]
| year1 = 1914
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 3
| bat avg1 = 1.50
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 3
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–
| date = 4 October
| year = 2021
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/9758.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Austin Carlos Bird''' (26 January 1884 — 4 January 1938) was an [[English people|English]] first-class [[cricket]]er and [[British Indian Army]] officer.

The son of the cricketer [[George Bird (cricketer)|George Bird]], he was born at Croxteth Lodge in [[Croxteth]] in January 1884. He was educated at [[Malvern College]], where he played for the cricket and [[association football|football]] teams.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Malvern Register, 1865-1904|first1=Edward Clifford|last1=Bullock|first2=Laurence Sidney|last2=Milward|publisher=Malvern Advertiser|location=[[Malvern, Worcestershire|Malvern]]|year=1905|page=412|url=https://archive.org/details/malvernregister00malgoog|language=en}}</ref> After leaving Malvern in 1902, Bird attended the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst|Royal Military College]] at [[Sandhurst, Berkshire|Sandhurst]], from which he graduated into the [[British Indian Army]] as a [[Second_lieutenant#United_Kingdom_and_other_Commonwealth_countries|second lieutenant]] in August 1904.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27704|date=12 August 1904|page=5217}}</ref> Once in [[British India]], Bird was attached to the [[Central India Horse|39th Prince of Wales's Own Central India Horse]], in which he was promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in November 1906.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28005|date=19 March 1907|page=1929}}</ref> He gained the rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in August 1913, at which point he was serving in the [[73rd Carnatic Infantry]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28765|date=17 October 1913|page=7253}}</ref>

Bird returned to England in 1914, where he played a single [[first-class cricket]] match for the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC) against [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]] at [[Lord's]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/27/27903/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Austin Bird|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-10-05|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed in the MCC first innings for 3 runs by [[Alec Kennedy]], while in their second innings he was dismissed [[duck (cricket)|without scoring]] by [[Jack Newman (English cricketer)|Jack Newman]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9265.html|title=Marylebone Cricket Club v Hampshire, 1914|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-10-05|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He continued to serve in the Indian Army following the [[First World War]], where he played minor cricket matches for [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cricket team|North-West Frontier Province]] in March 1919 and later [[Quetta cricket team|Quetta]] in 1925 and 1926.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/27/27903/all_teams.html|title=Teams Austin Bird played for|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-10-05|url-access=subscription}}</ref> By 1930, he held the rank of [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Indian Army List|publisher=Government of India Central Publication Branch|location=[[Kolkata|Calcutta]]|year=1932|page=131|url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Indian_Army_List/ZDQppNKcfzIC|language=en}}</ref> Bird later retired to England, where he died suddenly on 4 January 1938 at his residence in [[Buxted|Buxted, Sussex]].<ref>Funeral. ''[[Kent & Sussex Courier]]''. 14 January 1938. p. 10</ref> His brother was the [[Test cricket]]er [[Morice Bird]]. His own son, [[Alan Bird (cricketer)|Alan]], was also a first-class cricketer, as were his uncles [[Walter Bird (cricketer)|Walter Bird]] and [[Charles Clarke (Surrey cricketer)|Charles Clarke]].

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=9758}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bird, Austin}}
[[Category:1884 births]]
[[Category:1938 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Croxteth]]
[[Category:People educated at Malvern College]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers]]

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