Robert Bagehot Porch (3 April 1875 – 29 October 1962) played first-class cricket for Somerset from 1895 to 1910.
[7] At the end of the university term, he became a fairly regular player for Somerset in the second half of the 1895 season.
In his third first-class match, against Essex at Taunton, he scored an unbeaten 85, and this was to be the highest score of his cricket career; he was upstaged in the match, however, by the Essex total of 692, which was the highest total for the county for 95 years until beaten in 1990.
[10] In his obituary published in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 1964, Porch was quoted, apparently without irony, as "a great believer in the importance of fielding".
[11] The obituary says that his maxim was: "Save six fours when the other side is batting, and you have 24 to your name before you get off the mark, though it's not in the score-book."