English cricketer
The Honourable Freddie Calthorpe
Calthorpe in 1920
Full name Frederick Somerset Gough Calthorpe
Born (1892-05-27 ) 27 May 1892Kensington , London, EnglandDied 19 November 1935(1935-11-19) (aged 43)Worplesdon , Surrey , England Batting Right-handed Bowling Right-arm medium National side Test debut 11 January 1930 v West Indies Last Test 12 April 1930 v West Indies
Frederick Somerset Gough Calthorpe (27 May 1892 – 19 November 1935), styled The Honourable from 1912, was an English first-class cricketer .
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] He served in the Royal Air Force during World War I .[ 4]
In a first-class career that extended from 1911 to 1935, Calthorpe played cricket for Sussex , Cambridge University , Warwickshire and England . He toured with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) to Australia and New Zealand in 1922–23 , a trip that also served as a honeymoon for him and his bride Dorothy.[ 5] He captained Warwickshire from 1920 to 1929, and also led a strong MCC team on a tour of the West Indies in 1925–26 .[ 4]
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 .[ 4] During the tour, in a speech he gave in Barbados , he condemned the bowling tactic, later known as bodyline , which had been used by the West Indian fast bowler Learie Constantine .[ 6] [ 7]
He died of cancer[ 8] 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 .[ 9]
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.
^ a b c "Freddie Calthorpe" . Cricinfo . Retrieved 19 July 2021 .
^ David Kynaston , Archie's Last Stand: M.C.C. in New Zealand 1922-23 , Queen Anne Press, London, 1984, p. 34.
^ Pelham Warner , "Obituary", The Cricketer , Spring Annual 1936, p. 50.
^ "Freddie Calthorpe passes away at the age of 43" . cricketcountry.com . 19 November 2014. Retrieved 23 November 2014 .
^ Ryder, Cricket Calling , p. 114.
^ "Henry Blofeld: Nephew of an England captain?" . CricketCountry. 28 November 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2014 .
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