Charles Oxenden (born 23 May 1800 at Deane, near Wingham Kent; died 17 March 1874 at Barham, Kent) was an English amateur cricketer who helped found the Cambridge University Cricket Club, and played first-class cricket for the club from 1820 to 1822. He made 4 known appearances in first-class cricket.

Charles Oxenden was educated at Harrow School, where he captained the school cricket team in 1818, and arranged the first regular Eton v Harrow cricket match. He was admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge in 1819. Subsequently, ordained as a Church of England clergyman, he was Rector of Barham from 1846 until his death. His son, Charles junior, was also a first-class cricketer.

Charles Oxenden

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Arthur Haygarth, Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744–1826), Lillywhite, 1862

1800 births

1874 deaths

English cricketers

English cricketers of 1787 to 1825

Cambridge University cricketers

Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge

People from Wingham, Kent

People educated at Harrow School

19th-century English Anglican priests

Charles Oxenden