Michael Anderton
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| Full name | Frederic Michael Anderton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 December 1931 Agra, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 28 April 2020 (aged 88) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off-break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1953 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: [1], 21 July 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Reverend Frederic Michael Anderton (7 December 1931 – 28 April 2020)
Early life and cricket
He was born in
After National Service with the Green Jackets Brigade, he went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1952, originally to read Medicine but eventually graduating in History and Economics. He played both rugby and cricket for the University,[2] including three first-class cricket matches in 1953, but he did not win a cricket Blue. His highest score of 38 came when playing against Middlesex County Cricket Club.[5]
Career
Priest
After university, he was briefly a schoolmaster before he entered
Psychologist
He became the chairman of the
Anderton's consulting room was notable for its clouds of smoke from his pipe. He gave up smoking in his seventies, but continued to work into his mid-eighties while in semi-retirement in Winchester.[2]
Personal life
He had a life-long love of cricket, and it was after a
He was a bon viveur and a large but gentle man who was inclined to be absent-minded and clumsy, leaving "a trail of broken armchairs and pranged cars". He enjoyed the company of his family and friends and the life of the Winchester Cathedral community.[2]
Anderton died on 28 April 2020, at the age of 88.[4][2]
Notes and references
- ^ Per his Daily Telegraph obituary. CricketArchive has his date of birth as 8 December.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "The Reverend Michael Anderton, Anglican priest and Jungian analyst – obituary". The Telegraph. 21 July 2020. (registration required)
- ^ "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Frederic Anderton". Cricket archive. 12 August 2008.
- ^ a b "Rev Frederick Michael Anderton 1931-2020". Peerage News. 7 May 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ "Cambridge University v Middlesex". Cricket archive. 12 August 2008.