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Mill Road, Cambridge born Robert Carpenter was a cricketer whose known first class career spanned the 1855 to 1876 seasons. He is generally acknowledged to be one of the outstanding batsmen of the 1850’s and 1860’s. He was a right-handed batsman, usually opening the innings, and an occasional wicketkeeper. He played mostly for Cambridge Town Club (Cambridgeshire) and the United All-England Eleven (UEE). In 1859, Carpenter went to North America as a member of the first-ever overseas tour undertaken by the England team and, in 1862-63, was in the England team to Australia and New Zealand.
Carpenter scored 5,220 runs in 141 matches with an average of 24.39, making four centuries with a highest score of 134. A noted fielder, he held 190 catches and made two stumpings.
At the end of the 1859 English cricket season, Carpenter was one of the twelve players who took part in cricket’s first-ever overseas tour when an England cricket team led by George Parr visited North America. He also toured Australia with Parr in 1863. In the early 1860’s, Carpenter and his Cambridgeshire contemporary Thomas Hayward were rated the finest batsmen in England. Richard Daft was among those ranking them as equal first, but George Parr reckoned Carpenter the better of the two. W. G. Grace said of Carpenter that “he may be safely placed as one of the finest of our great batsmen”.
Carpenter represented the Players on eighteen occasions against the Gentlemen, making his debut in the match in 1859 and appearing for the last time in 1873, scoring centuries in the 1860 and 1861 fixtures at The Oval, making 119 in 1860, and 106 in 1861. In the 1860 match, he hit a ball clean out of The Oval.
He later became an umpire in County cricket for a considerable period of time and stood in two Test matches, both against Australia at The Oval, in August 1886 and August 1888.
His son, Herbert Carpenter, played over 300 matches in first class cricket, mainly for Essex, and his great nephew, Jack O’Connor, played for Essex and England in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
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