Robert Holden (cricketer)

Robert Holden DL (24 July 1805 — 11 November 1872) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

The son of Robert Holden and Mary Anne Drury Lowe, he was born at Spondon in July 1805.

[5] In March 1848, he replaced John Manners-Sutton as High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire.

[8] Holden travelled to London in November 1872 for medical treatment, where he died at Marylebone.

[9] His brother, Henry, and nephew Thomas Pearson both played first-class cricket.