Freddie Calthorpe

The Honourable Freddie Calthorpe

Cricket information

Batting style

Right-handed batsman (RHB)

Bowling style

Right-arm medium

International information

National side

English

Career statistics

Competition	Tests	First-class
Matches	4	369
Runs scored	129	12596
Batting average	18.42	24.03
100s/50s	0/0	13/55
Top score	49	209
Balls bowled	204	50786
Wickets	1	782
Bowling average	91.00	29.91
5 wickets in innings	0	18
10 wickets in match	0	0
Best bowling	1/38	6/17
Catches/stumpings	3/0	217/0

Source:

Frederick ("Freddie") Somerset Gough Calthorpe (27 May 1892 – 19 November 1935), styled The Honourable from 1912, was an English cricketer.

Born in London, Calthorpe ("pronounced with the first syllable rhyming with 'tall' and not with 'shall'")^[1] played 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 MCC team on a tour of the West Indies in 1925-26.

He died of cancer^[2] in Worplesdon, Surrey.

Calthorpe was a member of the Gough-Calthorpe family, the son of Somerset Frederick Gough-Calthorpe, the 8th Baron Calthorpe. He 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.^[3]

References

↑ Rowland Ryder, Cricket Calling, Faber & Faber, London, 1995, p. 113.
↑ Ryder, p. 114.
↑ "Henry Blofeld: Nephew of an England captain?". CricketCountry. Retrieved 30 November 2014.

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Sporting positions
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

England Test cricket captains

1876/77: Lillywhite 1878/79–1884: Harris 1881/82: Shaw 1882; 1884: Hornby 1882/83: Bligh 1884/85–1886/87: Shrewsbury 1886; 1888: Steel 1887/88–1891/92: Read 1888–1896; 1899: Grace 1888/89: C. A. Smith 1888/89: Bowden 1893; 1894/95–1897/98: Stoddart 1895/96: O'Brien 1895/96–1898/99: Hawke 1897/98; 1899–1909: MacLaren 1903/04–1905/06: Warner 1905: Jackson 1907: Foster 1907/08; 1909/10: Fane 1907/08: Jones 1909/10: Leveson Gower 1911/12–1920/21; 1921; 1924: Douglas 1912: Fry 1921: Tennyson 1922/23: F. Mann 1924–1924/25: A. Gilligan 1926; 1929: A. Carr 1926; 1928–1930/31: Chapman 1927/28: Stanyforth 1927/28: Stevens 1928/29; 1929: White 1929/30: H. Gilligan 1929/30: Calthorpe 1930; 1932/33; 1933; 1934–1935: Wyatt 1931–1933/34: Jardine 1934: Walters 1936–1947/48: Allen 1937: Robins 1938–1946/47: Hammond 1946/47; 1947–1950: Yardley 1947/48: Cranston 1948/49–1949: G. Mann 1949; 1950; 1950/51–1951: Brown 1951/52: Howard 1951/52: D. Carr 1952–1954/55: Hutton 1954: Sheppard 1955–1961: May 1959; 1959/60; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1966–1968/69: M. Cowdrey 1961/62–1964: Dexter 1963/64–1965/66; 1966: M. Smith 1966; 1967: Close 1968: Graveney 1969–1973: Illingworth 1972/73: Lewis 1973/74–1974/75; 1975: Denness 1974/75: Edrich 1975–1976/77: Greig 1977–1981: Brearley 1977/78; 1977/78: Boycott 1980–1980/81; 1981: Botham 1981/82: Fletcher 1982–1983/84; 1983/84: Willis 1982; 1983/84–1985/86; 1986; 1989: Gower 1986–1987/88; 1988: Gatting 1988: Emburey 1988: C. Cowdrey 1988; 1988–1993: Gooch 1989/90; 1990/91: Lamb 1992/93; 1992/93–1998/99; 2000; 2001: Stewart 1993; 1993/94–1997/98; 2001: Atherton 1999–2003: Hussain 1999: Butcher 2003–2008: Vaughan 2004; 2005/06: Trescothick 2006–2006/07: Flintoff 2006; 2007; 2008/09–2012: Strauss 2008–2008/09: Pietersen 2010; 2012–: Cook

Italics denote deputised captaincy

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