Robert Awdry CBE (20 May 1881 – 3 February 1949) was an English cricketer who later became chairman of Wiltshire County Council.
He played nine first-class matches for Oxford University Cricket Club between 1902 and 1904.
[4] He was appointed CBE in the 1946 New Year Honours in recognition of his role as chairman of the council's Emergency Committee.
[2] In 1920, Olive was appointed MBE for services to Wiltshire Women's County Agricultural Committee.
[6] Awdry had Hawkswell House built at Little Cheverell, Wiltshire around 1914–1920,[7] and lived there until 1941.