Freddie Calthorpe
Frederick Somerset Gough Calthorpe (27 May 1892 – 19 November 1935), styled The Honourable from 1912, was an English first-class cricketer.
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| Full name | Frederick Somerset Gough Calthorpe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 May 1892 Kensington, London, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 19 November 1935 (aged 43) Worplesdon, Surrey, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut | 11 January 1930 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 12 April 1930 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 5 April 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born in London, Calthorpe ("pronounced with the first syllable rhyming with 'tall' and not with 'shall'")[1] was a member of the Gough-Calthorpe family, the son of Somerset Frederick Gough-Calthorpe, who inherited the title of 8th Baron Calthorpe in 1912. Freddie Calthorpe was educated at Windlesham House School, Repton and Jesus College, Cambridge.[2][3]
Calthorpe played cricket for Sussex, Cambridge University, Warwickshire and England. He captained England in his only four Test matches: on the first ever Test tour of the West Indies in 1929–30, which was drawn 1–1. This tour was played simultaneously to another England Test tour to New Zealand, where England were captained by Harold Gilligan.
His first-class career extended from 1911 to 1935. He captained Warwickshire from 1920 to 1929, and also led a strong Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) team on a tour of the West Indies in 1925–26.
He died of cancer[4] in Worplesdon, Surrey.
Calthorpe is distantly related to the cricket commentator Henry Blofeld, and more closely to the England captain H. D. G. Leveson Gower and the early cricket patron John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset.[5]
References
- Rowland Ryder (1995) Cricket Calling, Faber & Faber, London, p. 113. ISBN 0571174752.
- CALTHORPE, Hon. Frederick Somerset Gough-, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014, accessed 12 November 2016)
- Wilson, G. Herbert (1937). Windlesham House School: History and Muster Roll 1837–1937. London: McCorquodale & Co. Ltd.
- Rowland Ryder (1995) Cricket Calling, Faber & Faber, London, p. 114. ISBN 0571174752
- "Henry Blofeld: Nephew of an England captain?". CricketCountry. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
External links
Media related to Freddie Calthorpe at Wikimedia Commons- Freddie Calthorpe at ESPNcricinfo
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| Preceded by Jack White |
English national cricket captain with Harold Gilligan 1929/1930 |
Succeeded by Percy Chapman |
| Preceded by George Stephens |
Warwickshire County Cricket Captain 1920–1929 |
Succeeded by Bob Wyatt |