Richard Palairet

<h2 id="education-and-military-service">Education and military service</h2>
<p>Palairet was educated at <a href="/facts/Repton_School/DYKk26GC">Repton School</a> before attending <a href="/facts/Oriel_College%2c_Oxford/NQ5Udhut">Oriel College, Oxford</a>. He served in <a href="/facts/India/1kKHcnxM">India</a> including <a href="/facts/Waziristan_campaign_(1919%25E2%2580%25931920)/0zowz6Bh">Waziristan</a> (1919) between 1914 and 1919 with the <a href="/facts/Devonshire_Regiment/x3xBMMXw">2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment</a> during the <a href="/facts/First_World_War/vITTUanQ">First World War</a>. Palairet was promoted to <a href="/facts/Captain_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)/mQwAWyN0">captain</a> in 1917.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a>
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<ul><li><a href="/facts/Wisden_Cricketers%2527_Almanack/MpQsbNzS">Wisden Cricketers' Almanack</a>, 1956 edition, Obituaries section, details his career and his style</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li> Media related to Richard Palairet at Wikimedia Commons</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Cricket archive – Richard Palairet Retrieved 2 September 2012 <a href="https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3742/3742.html" target="_blank">https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3742/3742.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Richard Palairet