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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Ralph Louis Clutton
| birth_date = 23 December 1902
| birth_place = [[British Hong Kong]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1957|9|29|1902|12|23}}
| death_place = [[St Leonards-on-Sea]], [[Sussex]],<br />England
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Left-arm [[Seam bowling|medium]]
| role =
| club1 = [[Bedfordshire County Cricket Club|Bedfordshire]]
| year1 = 1923
| club2 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year2 = 1926/27
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 0
| bat avg1 = 0.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 0
| deliveries1 = 6
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| date = 27 July
| year = 2019
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/27728.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Ralph Louis Clutton''' (23 December 1902 – 29 September 1957) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er.

The son of Captain Ralph Philip Clutton, he was born at [[British Hong Kong]] in December 1902.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal |first=Melville Henry Massue |last=marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval |date=1994 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Company |page=373 |isbn=080631432X |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O1BmAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> He was educated in England at [[Downside School]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Downside School |journal=The Downside Review |volume=44 |date=1926 |publisher=Downside School |page=215 |language=en|doi=10.1177/001258062604400108 |s2cid=220421664 }}</ref> He later played a single [[first-class cricket]] match for the [[Europeans cricket team]] in [[British India]] against the touring [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] at [[Karachi Gymkhana|Karachi]] in October 1926.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13178/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Ralph Clutton |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-27 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting once in the match, he was dismissed [[duck (cricket)|without scoring]] by [[George Geary]] in the Europeans' only innings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/12/12124.html |title=Europeans v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1926/27 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-27 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> In addition to playing first-class cricket, Clutton also played [[Minor Counties of English and Welsh cricket|minor counties cricket]] for [[Bedfordshire County Cricket Club|Bedfordshire]] in 1923, making a single appearance in the [[Minor Counties Championship]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13178/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html |title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Ralph Clutton |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-27 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> During the [[Second World War]], Clutton was commissioned as a [[lieutenant]] in the [[Royal Artillery]] on 4 May 1940.<ref name="LondonGazette">{{London Gazette| issue = 34861| date = 28 May 1940| page = 3259| supp = y}}</ref> He died at [[St Leonards-on-Sea]] in September 1959.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=27728}}

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[[Category:British expatriates in British Hong Kong]]
[[Category:British people in British India]]
[[Category:People educated at Downside School]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Bedfordshire cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:Royal Artillery officers]]
[[Category:20th-century English sportsmen]]

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