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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = Charles Rocke<br />
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| country = England<br />
| fullname = Charles Augustus Rocke<br />
| birth_date = 5 October 1800<br />
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = <br />
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| role = [[Wicket-keeper]]<br />
| club1 = [[Kent county cricket teams|Kent]]<br />
| year1 = 1828<br />
| date = 30 March<br />
| year = 2013<br />
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/37/37603/37603.html CricketArchive<br />
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'''Charles Augustus Rocke''' (born 5 October 1800) was an English [[first-class cricket]]er who played for [[Kent county cricket teams|Kent]], [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]] and [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] in six matches from 1822 to 1828, totalling 47 runs with a highest score of 16 and taking 5 victims with 6 wickets..<ref name="CA37">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/37/37603/37603.html |website=CricketArchive |title=Charles Rocke |access-date=30 March 2013}}</ref><ref name=carlaw>Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 469–470. ([https://archive.acscricket.com/books/Kent_Cricketers_A_to_Z_Part_One_Revised_Expanded.pdf Available online] at the [[Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians]]. Retrieved 16 August 2022.)</ref><br />
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Rocke was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]] and [[Jesus College, Cambridge]].<ref name="acad">{{acad |id=RK821CA |name=Rocke, Charles Augustus}}</ref> His later life is not known, but in 1830 he was cited as a "bankrupt" in a notice in ''[[The Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news| title = Property Notices | newspaper = The Times |issue = 14402 | page = 8 | location = London | date = 6 December 1830}}</ref> He apparently emigrated in 1849 to Borneo, where his second cousin [[James Brooke]] was Rajah of Sarawak.<ref name="acad"/><br />
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