Anthony Burton (Kent cricketer)

Anthony Frederick Augustus Burton (1785 – 5 September 1850) was an English cricketer who played for Kent sides during the 1820s.

Burton was born in 1785 and worked as a maltster at Westerham in Kent. He played village cricket for the Westerham side and is known to have played for a variety of other teams in west Kent, including Leigh. A wicket-keeper, he played in two first-class matches for Kent in 1822, both against the Marylebone Cricket Club. In the first match at Lord's Burton scored 21 runs as Kent won by an innings. In the second, played at Chislehurst on the West Kent side's ground, he made scores of four and 17 runs. In the two matches he claimed five wicket-keeping victims, with three catches and two stumpings.

During the same year Burton played for a West Kent side at Chevening, and in 1826 and 1827 he played for the Players of Kent against the Gentlemen of Kent. He died at Wimbledon in 1850, leaving property to his wife Sarah.