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Edward Thomas Austen (28 January 1820 – 10 June 1908) was an English cricketer. Austen's batting style is unknown.

The son of Sir Francis William Austen and Mary Gibson, Austen was born at Chawton, Hampshire. He was a nephew to the novelist Jane Austen. He studied at St John's College, Oxford, gaining his BA in 1846 and his MA in 1850. He played a single first-class cricket match for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Oxford University in 1844 at the Magdalen Ground, Oxford. In a match which Oxford University won by 5 runs, Austen was run out for a duck in the MCC's first-innings, while he ended their second not out on 3.

Austen was later the rector at Barfrestone, Kent, a position he held from 1854 until his death on 10 June 1908.

References

1. ^ "Jane Austen family". www.janeaustensfamily.co.uk. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
2. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). "Austen, Edward Thomas" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
3. "First-Class Matches played by Edward Austen". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
4. "Oxford University v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1844". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 January 2014.

External links

• Edward Austen at ESPNcricinfo

• 1820 births
• 1908 deaths
• Austen family
• People from Chawton
• Alumni of St John's College, Oxford
• English cricketers
• Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
• 19th-century English Anglican priests
• Jane Austen
• People from Dover District
• Cricketers from Kent