Richard Edwardes More (3 January 1879 – 24 November 1936) was an English cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Middlesex, amongst others, and later played for the Egypt national cricket team while he was working for the Sudan Civil Service.
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Richard More was a son of Robert Jasper More, a barrister and politician. He was educated at Westminster School, where he captained the cricket and football teams. He then went up to Christ Church, Oxford, and made his first-class debut for the university cricket team against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) during the 1898 English cricket season. He also played a first-class match for the university against Essex that year.
He did not play for the university in 1899 and returned to the side for the 1900 season when he played matches against Surrey, Sussex and the MCC before gaining his blue when playing against Cambridge University at Lord's.
He played eight first-class matches for the university side in 1901 in addition to a non-first-class match against Dublin University in Dublin. He made his debut for Middlesex that year, when he played a County Championship match against Nottinghamshire. He played thirteen further County Championship matches that season, also playing in the Gentlemen v Players match. He then toured North America with a team captained by Bernard Bosanquet, playing two first-class matches against Philadelphia.
After not playing first-class cricket in 1902 or 1903, he returned to the Middlesex team for nine County Championship matches in the 1904 season, also playing for the Gentlemen of England against the Players of the South that year. He played two first-class matches for the MCC in 1905 – against Cambridge University and Oxford University.