John Frederick (English cricketer)

John St John Frederick (6 January 1846 — 10 September 1907) was an English first-class cricketer, cricket administrator, and British Army officer.

Life and cricket career

The son of the

Owing to a serious knee injury he did not feature for Oxford in 1865,[1] but did make two first-class appearances later in the season for the Gentlemen of Middlesex and the Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club. He resumed playing for Oxford in 1866, making a single appearance against Southgate, in addition to playing twice for Hampshire and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).^[3] The following season, he made four first-class appearances for Oxford University and one apiece for the MCC and the Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club. Frederick made three final first-class appearances in 1868, playing one each for the Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club, the MCC, and Hampshire.^[3] He played the majority (10) of his first-class matches for Oxford, scoring 188 runs at an average of 11.05, with a highest score of 39. For Hampshire, he scored 171 runs and made his highest first-class score of 44. For the Gentlemen of the MCC and the MCC, he scored 153 runs and 95 runs respectively.^[4] His overall first-class career consisted on 25 matches, in which he scored 635 runs at an average of 26.50.^[5] As a batsman, he was described in Scores and Biographies as a "fine, free, and powerful hitter".^[1] His four wickets all came in a single match for Hampshire against Middlesex in 1864.^[6]

Frederick later served in the

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