Sir Charles Aubrey Smith, KBE, known to movie-goers as C. Aubrey Smith, (21 July 1863; London, England – 20 December 1948; Beverly Hills, California) was an English cricketer and actor. He was knighted in 1944 for services to Anglo-American amity.
Smith was educated at Charterhouse School and St John's College, Cambridge. He settled in South Africa to prospect for gold in 1888-89. While there he developed pneumonia and was wrongly pronounced dead...
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Sir Charles Aubrey Smith, KBE, known to movie-goers as C. Aubrey Smith, (21 July 1863; London, England – 20 December 1948; Beverly Hills, California) was an English cricketer and actor. He was knighted in 1944 for services to Anglo-American amity.
Smith was educated at Charterhouse School and St John's College, Cambridge. He settled in South Africa to prospect for gold in 1888-89. While there he developed pneumonia and was wrongly pronounced dead by doctors. He married Isabella Wood in 1896.
As a cricketer, Smith was primarily a seam bowler, though he was also a useful lower-order batsman and slip fielder. His oddly curved bowling run-up gave him the nickname "Round the Corner Smith". W. G. Grace commented that "it is rather startling when he suddenly appears at the bowling crease". He played for Cambridge University 1882-85 and for Sussex at various times between 1882 and 1892. While in South Africa he captained the Johannesburg English XI. He captained England to victory in his...
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