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Robert Douglas McKelvie (1 July 1912 – 5 January 1996) was an English cricketer. Mckelvie was a right-handed batsman who occasionally fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Blofield, Norfolk and educated at Malvern College, where he represented the college cricket team. McKelvie made a single appearance for Buckinghamshire in the 1947 Minor Counties Championship against Hertfordshire. The following season he made his only first-class appearance for the Free Foresters against Cambridge University. He scored 10 runs in the Free Foresters first-innings, before being dismissed by Trevor Bailey. In their second-innings he scored 12 runs before being dismissed by Hugh Griffiths. He died in Banbury, Oxfordshire on 5 January 1996.