Frederick Micklethwait

Frederick Nathaniel Micklethwait (18 April 1817 – 18 October 1878) was an English lawyer and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and the Marylebone Cricket Club.[1] He was born at Beeston, Nottinghamshire and died at Taverham Hall, Norwich, Norfolk.

Micklethwait was educated at Eton College and Jesus College, Cambridge.[2] He played cricket at Eton as a middle-order batsman and in 1836 he appeared in two matches for Cambridge University that have subsequently been considered as first-class; the second of them was the 1836 University Match against Oxford University, in which he scored 6 and 0.[3] Between 1839 and 1848 he played in four further first-class matches for the MCC; in the last of these, a game against Cambridge University that was finished in a single day, he scored 20 out of an MCC total of 54, and this was his highest first-class score.[4] In minor matches he appeared frequently through to the 1860s for I Zingari, the nomadic amateur side.[1] He retained links to cricket, being on the committee of the MCC.[2]

Micklethwait's younger brother, Sotherton, also played first-class cricket for Cambridge University.

Micklethwait graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1839 and was called to the bar in 1842.[2] He specialised in property law and was an "equity draftsman and conveyancer".[2] He left "under £70,000" when he died in 1878.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Frederick Micklethwait". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 J. Venn and J. A. Venn. "Alumni Cantabrigienses: Frederick Micklethwait". www.archive.org/Cambridge University Press. p. 405. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "Scorecard: Oxford University v Cambridge University". www.cricketarchive.com. 23 June 1836. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  4. ↑ "Scorecard: Marylebone Cricket Club v Cambridge University". www.cricketarchive.com. 19 June 1848. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  5. ↑ "Wills and Bequests". The Times (29437) (London). 13 December 1878. p. 5. (subscription required (help)).
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