Arthur Rumboll

{{short description|English cricketer, railwayman, and soldier}}

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Arthur Rumboll

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Arthur Charles Rumboll

| birth_date = 20 August 1869

| birth_place = West Grimstead, Wiltshire, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1935|7|31|1869|8|20|df=yes}}

| death_place = Weybridge, Surrey, England

| nickname =

| family =

| batting = Unknown

| bowling =

| role =

| club1 = Europeans

| year1 = 1901/02

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 17

| bat avg1 = 8.50

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 12

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–

| date = 2 January

| year = 2024

| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/arthur-rumboll-33302 Cricinfo

}}

Arthur Charles Rumboll {{postnominal|OBE|CIE}} (20 August 1869 – 31 July 1935) was an English first-class cricketer and a figure in the Great Indian Peninsula Railway.

The son of Charles Large Rumboll, was born in August 1869 at West Grimstead, Wiltshire. Rumboll worked for the railways in British India, beginning his career with the Indian Midland Railway and gaining a military commission in the Midland Railway Volunteer Rifles as a second lieutenant in April 1892,{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002922/18920427/095/0018|title=Promotion|work=Englishman's Overland Mail|location=Calcutta|page=18|date=27 April 1892|access-date=2 January 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}} with promotion to lieutenant following in October 1894.{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003197/18941031/063/0015|title=Promotions|work=Indian Daily News|location=Calcutta|page=15|date=31 October 1894|access-date=2 January 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}} A further promotion to captain followed in July 1898,{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003221/18980706/069/0007|title=Promotions|work=Civil and Military Gazette|location=Lahore|page=7|date=6 July 1898|access-date=2 January 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}} The Indian Midland Railway was succeeded by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway in Bombay, for whom Rumboll was a deputy manager.{{cite book|title=Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage|date=1921|publisher=Dean & Son|location=London|page=52|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=430rhznNVhoC|language=en}} He was made an OBE in the 1918 Birthday Honours, at which point he held the position of general traffic manager with the railway.{{London Gazette|issue=30730|date=4 June 1918|page=6716|supp=y}} In the 1921 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire, holding the position of acting agent with the railway.{{London Gazette|issue=32178|date=1 January 1921|page=7|supp=y}}

While in India, Rumboll played first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team, making a single appearance against the Parsees at Bombay in the 1901–02 Bombay Presidency Match.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14484/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Arthur Rumboll|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2 January 2024|url-access=subscription}} Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 12 runs in the Europeans first innings by Kekhashru Mistry, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 5 runs by Ardeshir Mehta.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5817.html|title=Europeans v Parsees, Bombay Presidency Match 1901/02|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2 January 2024|url-access=subscription}} Rumboll later retired to England, where he died at Weybridge in July 1935.{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003221/19350803/066/0006|title=Obituaries|work=Civil and Military Gazette|location=Lahore|page=6|date=3 August 1935|access-date=2 January 2024|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}