Frederick George Willoughby (25 April 1862 — 16 April 1952) was a Scottish-born English first-class cricketer.
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| Full name | Frederick George Willoughby | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 April 1862 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 14 April 1952 (aged 89) Eastleigh, Hampshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1885 | Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1895 | Worcestershire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FC umpired | 21 (1906) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 1 January 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Willoughby was born at Edinburgh in April 1862. He made his debut in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Derbyshire at Southampton in 1885. He made seven further first-class appearances for Hampshire during that season.[1] Playing in the Hampshire side as a left-arm medium pace bowler, he took 25 wickets at an average of 22.56, with best figures of 4 for 39.[2] As a lower order batsman, he scored 60 runs with a highest score of 19.[3] With Hampshire losing their first-class status following that season, he continued to play minor matches for the county in 1886.[4] Around the as he played first-class cricket for Hampshire, Willoughby founded the now defunct Botley F.C.[5]
Soon after this, he relocated to Malvern to take up the post of cricket coach at Malvern College, where he helped to produce several first-class cricketers.[6] There, he initially began playing minor matches for Worcestershire in 1890,[4] before playing for Worcestershire in their maiden season of minor counties cricket; his sole minor counties appearance came against Hertfordshire in the 1895 Minor Counties Championship.[7] He later stood as an umpire in the Minor Counties Championship in 1904 and 1905,[8] before standing in 21 first-class matches in 1906.[9] Willoughby returned to Hampshire in his latter years, where he was resident at Eastleigh.[5] He died there in April 1952, eleven days short of his 90th birthday.
References
edit- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Frederick Willoughby". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ "First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Frederick Willoughby". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ "First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Frederick Willoughby". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ a b "Teams Frederick Willoughby played for". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ a b "Botley Football Club – Nearly Fifty Years Ago". Hampshire Advertiser. Southampton. 1 September 1934. p. 15. Retrieved 11 September 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Notes by observer". Worcestershire Chronicle. Worcester. 5 July 1902. p. 4. Retrieved 11 September 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Frederick Willoughby". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ "Frederick Willoughby as Umpire in Minor Counties Championship Matches". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
- ^ "Frederick Willoughby as Umpire in First-Class Matches". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 September 2023.