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{{Short description|Scottish cricketer and soldier (1879–1945)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2013}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Robert Anstruther
| image =
| country = Scotland
| full_name = Robert Abercrombie Anstruther
| birth_date = 3 August 1879
| birth_place = [[Armagh]], Ireland
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1945|8|27|1879|8|3|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Carnbee, Fife|Carnbee]], [[Fife]], Scotland
| family = [[Alexander Anstruther (cricketer)|Alexander Anstruther]] (uncle)
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1910/11
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 11
| bat avg1 = 5.50
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 7
| deliveries1 = 96
| wickets1 = 2
| bowl avg1 = 36.50
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 2/73
| catches/stumpings1 = 0/–
| date = 13 May
| year = 2023
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/robert-anstruther-26413 Cricinfo
}}

'''Robert Abercrombie Anstruther''' {{postnominal|DSO}} (3 August 1879 — 27 August 1945) was an Irish-born Scottish first-class [[cricket]]er and [[British Army]] officer.

The son of the Scottish soldier Philip Robert Anstruther,<ref name="NEWS">{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19450830/064/0003|title=Death of Major R. A. Anstruther|work=[[The Scotsman]]|location=Edinburgh|page=3|date=30 August 1945|access-date=13 May 2023|url-access=subscription|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> he was born in Ireland at [[Armagh]] in August 1879. He was commissioned into the [[British Army]] from the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich|Royal Military Academy]] as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in June 1898.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26983|date=1 July 1898|page=3985}}</ref> He served with the [[Royal Field Artillery]] during the [[Second Boer War]], being promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] during the conflict in February 1901.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27285|date=15 February 1901|page=1149}}</ref> He was later promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in November 1905.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27874|date=12 January 1906|page=286}}</ref> Whilst serving in [[British India]], Anstruther made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Parsis cricket team|Parsees]] at [[Deccan Gymkhana Ground|Deccan]] in the 1910–11 [[Bombay Quadrangular|Bombay Presidency Match]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/12/12632/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Robert Anstruther|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=13 May 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 4 runs [[Batting order (cricket)#Opening batters|opening the batting]] by [[Jehangir Warden]], whilst [[follow-on|following-on]] in their second innings he was dismissed for 7 runs by [[M. B. Vatcha]]. With the ball, he took the wickets of [[D. D. Driver]] and [[Rustomji Meherhomji]] in the Parsees first innings, for the cost of 73 runs from 16 [[over (cricket)|overs]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8294.html|title=Europeans v Parsees, Bombay Presidency Match 1910/11|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=13 May 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

In the military, Anstruther served in the [[First World War]] with the [[40th Brigade Royal Field Artillery]], being [[mentioned in dispatches]] in October 1914.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28942|date=16 October 1914|page=8350|supp=y}}</ref> In the same month as his dispatches mention, he was promoted to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28960|date=30 October 1914|page=8859|supp=y}}</ref> Whilst part of the [[British Salonika Army]] opposing [[Kingdom of Bulgaria|Bulgarian]] advances on the [[Macedonian front]], Anstruther was again mentioned in dispatches,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29851|date=5 December 1916|page=11936|supp=y}}</ref> and was later made a Companion of the [[Distinguished Service Order]] in the [[1917 Birthday Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30111|date=1 June 1917|page=5468|supp=y}}</ref> Following the war, he was placed on the [[half-pay]] list on account of ill health in August 1920 and retired in August 1921.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32030|date=24 August 1920|page=8774|supp=y}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32436|date=25 August 1921|page=6759|supp=y}}</ref> Anstruther died at his home in [[Carnbee, Fife|Carnbee]] in Scotland on 27 August 1945.<ref name="NEWS"/> His uncle, [[Alexander Anstruther (cricketer)|Alexander Anstruther]], was also a first-class cricket. He was also a cousin to [[Sir Ralph Anstruther, 6th Baronet|Sir Ralph Anstruther]], the 6th Baronet of the [[Anstruther baronets]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002700/19170607/020/0002|title=The honour of the D.S.O. has been conferred on Major Robert Abercrombie Anstruther|work=East of Fife Record|page=2|date=7 June 1917|access-date=13 May 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=26413}}

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[[Category:1879 births]]
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[[Category:Sportspeople from Armagh]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]]
[[Category:Royal Field Artillery officers]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of the Second Boer War]]
[[Category:Scottish cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:Companions of the Distinguished Service Order]]
[[Category:Clan Anstruther|Robert]]
[[Category:Military personnel from County Armagh]]

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