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{{short description|English cricketer, soldier and clergyman}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Kenneth Robathan
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Kenneth Minshull Robathan
| birth_date = 1 September 1889
| birth_place = [[Agra]], [[North-Western Provinces]],<br>[[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1965|2|2|1889|9|1|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Ringwood, Hampshire|Ringwood]], [[Hampshire]], England
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1920/21
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 44
| bat avg1 = 22.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 40
| deliveries1 = 84
| wickets1 = 4
| bowl avg1 = 6.50
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 4/26
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| date = 24 November
| year = 2023
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/kenneth-robathan-33295 ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''Kenneth Minshull Robathan''' (1 September 1889 – 2 February 1965) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er, [[British Indian Army]] officer and clergyman.

The son of The Reverend Thomas Robathan, he was born in [[British India]] at [[Agra]] in September 1889. He was educated in England, firstly at the Church Missionary School in [[Limpsfield]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College|first1=Ernest Stewart|last1=Roberts|author-link1=Ernest Stewart Roberts|first2=Edward John|last2=Gross|date=1912|page=98|volume=4|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o45BAAAAYAAJ|language=en}}</ref> before proceeding to [[Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood|Merchant Taylors' School]]; there he played for and [[captain (cricket)|captained]] the school cricket team.<ref name="MER">{{cite book|title=Merchant Taylors' School Register|first=E. P.|last=Hart|date=1923|page=356|publisher=[[Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors|Merchant Taylors' Company]]|location=[[London]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_4tBAAAAYAAJ|language=en}}</ref> From there, matriculated to [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge|Caius College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Historical Register of the University of Cambridge|date=1922|page=37|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4s1MAAAAYAAJ|language=en}}</ref> After graduating from Cambridge, Robathan went to [[British India]] in 1912, where he was in business. He served in the [[First World War]] on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] with the [[British Indian Army]],<ref name="MER"/> being commissioned as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in the [[2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)|2nd Gurkha Rifles]] in September 1915.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29333|date=19 October 1915|page=10294}}</ref> Promotion to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] followed in September 1916,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30199|date=24 July 1917|page=7495}}</ref> before being made an acting [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in March 1918.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31168|date=7 February 1919|page=1967}}</ref> Following the war, he made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Parsis cricket team|Parsees]] at [[Bombay Gymkhana|Bombay]] in the 1920–21 [[Bombay Quadrangular]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14448/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Kenneth Robathan|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=24 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
Batting twice in the match, he [[Batting order (cricket)#Opening batters|opened the batting]] and was dismissed for 40 runs in the Europeans first innings by [[P. H. Daruwala]], while in their second innings he once again opened the batting and was dismissed for 4 runs by [[M. B. Vatcha]]. As a [[bowling (cricket)|bowler]], he took 4 wickets for the cost of 26 runs in the Parsees second innings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9986.html|title=Europeans v Parsees, Bombay Quadrangular Tournament 1920/21|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=24 November 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Robathan later returned to England, where he followed in his father's footsteps by becoming a clergyman. He held ecclesiastical appointments at [[Dethick, Lea and Holloway]] in [[Derbyshire]], [[Lee-on-the-Solent]] in [[Hampshire]], and latterly at [[Potterne]] in [[Wiltshire]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000521/19341004/027/0003|title=Derby diocese admissions|work=[[Derby Telegraph|Derby Daily Telegraph]]|page=12|date=4 October 1934|access-date=24 November 2023|url-access=subscription|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000290/19540814/260/0012|title=Lee losing its vicar|work=[[The News (Portsmouth)|Portsmouth Evening News]]|page=12|date=14 August 1954|access-date=24 November 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> Robathan died in February 1965 at [[Ringwood, Hampshire]].

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=33295}}

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[[Category:1889 births]]
[[Category:1965 deaths]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Agra]]
[[Category:People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood]]
[[Category:Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:20th-century English businesspeople]]
[[Category:Royal Gurkha Rifles officers]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:20th-century English Anglican priests]]

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