 His best season was in 1894, when he played six times, scoring 223 at an average of 24.77.Robert Popham, the son of the Reverend Edward Bryan Coombe Spurway, was born in Heathfield, Somerset.He attended Sherborne School from September 1877 to July 1879, then Haileybury College and played for the school's cricket team on at least one occasion.