Randolph Aston

[2] Aston was educated at a succession of notable schools including Cheltenham, Westminster and Berkhamstead, but finally and mainly at Tonbridge, before being admitted to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1888.

outside university months, was selected to join Percy Carpmael's newly formed invitational team, the Barbarians.

On the hard grounds of South Africa, Aston was a revelation, possessing not only a massive frame, recorded as 15 stone, but also impressive speed.

[4] Aston played in all twenty games of the tour including the three Tests, amassing an incredible 30 tries in total.

If it wasn't for the peculiar scoring system of the time, he would have ended the tour as the top Test points scorer, but his two tries were surpassed by two conversions by Arthur Rotherham.