Charles Harry (or Henry) Moline (June 1863 – 23 May 1927) was an Anglo-Austrian businessman and a cricketer who played in two first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University in 1886.[1] Moline was born in Ljubljana, then called Laibach and at that stage in the Austrian Empire, but now in Slovenia; he died in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. His precise date of birth is not known.
Charles Moline was the son of an English father who was a businessman who set up sugar refining factories in Ljubljana and married a local woman, Emma Kranz, in 1852.[2] The family returned to England in the mid-1860s to live in Bristol where they had sugar refining interests, and Charles was educated at Bristol Grammar School and at Jesus College, Cambridge.[3] Moline had two matches for the University team as a right-handed tail-end batsman and a right-arm slow bowler: in the first he made 16 out of a last-wicket partnership of 40 that took Cambridge's total to 84, and also took his only first-class wicket, but he was not successful in the second game and did not appear again.[4] He played club cricket for Clifton Cricket Club alongside his brothers, Edgar, who also played two first-class matches for Gloucestershire, and Frank.[1]
There is no record that Moline took a degree at Cambridge University; he went into business in the family sugar refinery trade.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "Charles Moline". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
- ^ "Marriages". The Times. No. 21308. London. 25 December 1852. p. 7.
- ^ a b J. Venn and J. A. Venn. "Alumni Cantabrigienses: Charles Moline". p. 435. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ "Scorecard: Cambridge University v C I Thornton's XI". www.cricketarchive.com. 20 May 1886. Retrieved 4 October 2014.