Richard Eglington

{{short description|English cricketer}}

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{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}

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| name =

| country = England

| fullname = Richard Eglington

| nickname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|4|1|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Esher, Surrey, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1979|3|20|1908|4|1|df=yes}}

| death_place = Winchester, Hampshire, England

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| batting = Right-handed

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| family =

| club1 = Minor Counties

| year1 = 1939

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| club2 = Surrey

| year2 = 1938

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| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 3

| runs1 = 82

| bat avg1 = 20.50

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 34

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| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–

| date = 12 August

| year = 2012

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/12633.html Cricinfo

}}

Richard "Sam" Eglington (1 April 1908 – 20 March 1979) was an English cricketer. Eglington was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Esher, Surrey, and was educated at Sherborne School.

Eglington first represented the Surrey Second XI in the 1927 Minor Counties Championship, making two appearances against the Kent Second XI and Buckinghamshire.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29246/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Sam Eglington|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=12 August 2012}} He next appeared for the Surrey Second XI in the 1938 Minor Counties Championship, in the same season in which he made his first-class debut for Surrey against Derbyshire at Queen's Park, Chesterfield, in the County Championship. He made a second first-class appearance for the county in that same season against Cambridge University at The Oval.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29246/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Sam Eglington|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=12 August 2012}} He didn't feature for Surrey in 1939, instead playing for the county's Second XI in the Minor Counties Championship, which allowed him to be selected for a combined Minor Counties cricket team, making a single first-class appearance for the team in 1939 against the touring West Indians at Lord's. In a match which was drawn, he scored 23 runs in the Minor Counties only innings, before being dismissed by Learie Constantine.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17009.html|title=Minor Counties v West Indians, 1939|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=12 August 2012}}

He died at Winchester, Hampshire, on 20 March 1979.