Frederick Willoughby

{{short description|Scottish-born English cricketer}}

{{about|the cricketer|the clergyman|Frederick Samuel Willoughby}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2013}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Frederick Willoughby

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Frederick George Willoughby

| nickname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1862|4|25|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1952|4|14|1862|4|25|df=yes}}

| death_place = Eastleigh, Hampshire, England

| heightft =

| heightinch =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Left-arm medium

| family =

| club1 = Hampshire

| year1 = 1885

| club2 = Worcestershire

| year2 = 1895

| umpire = true

| fcumpired = 21

| umpfcdebutyr = 1906

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 8

| runs1 = 60

| bat avg1 = 5.00

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 19

| deliveries1 = 1,334

| wickets1 = 25

| bowl avg1 = 22.56

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = 4/39

| catches/stumpings1 = 5/–

| date = 1 January

| year = 2010

| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/22464.html Cricinfo

}}

Frederick George Willoughby (25 April 1862 — 16 April 1952) was a Scottish-born English first-class cricketer.

Willoughby was born at Edinburgh in April 1862. He made his debut in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Derbyshire at Southampton in 1885. He made seven further first-class appearances for Hampshire during that season.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6929/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Frederick Willoughby|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=11 September 2023|url-access=subscription}} Playing in the Hampshire side as a left-arm medium pace bowler, he took 25 wickets at an average of 22.56, with best figures of 4 for 39.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6929/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Frederick Willoughby|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=11 September 2023|url-access=subscription}} As a lower order batsman, he scored 60 runs with a highest score of 19.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6929/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Frederick Willoughby|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=11 September 2023|url-access=subscription}} With Hampshire losing their first-class status following that season, he continued to play minor matches for the county in 1886.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6929/all_teams.html|title=Teams Frederick Willoughby played for|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=11 September 2023|url-access=subscription}} Around the as he played first-class cricket for Hampshire, Willoughby founded the now defunct Botley F.C.{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003142/19340901/315/0015|title=Botley Football Club – Nearly Fifty Years Ago|work=Hampshire Advertiser|location=Southampton|page=15|date=1 September 1934|access-date=11 September 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}

Soon after this, he relocated to Malvern to take up the post of cricket coach at Malvern College, where he helped to produce several first-class cricketers.{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000350/19020705/051/0004|title=Notes by observer|work=Worcestershire Chronicle|location=Worcester|page=4|date=5 July 1902|access-date=11 September 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}} There, he initially began playing minor matches for Worcestershire in 1890, before playing for Worcestershire in their maiden season of minor counties cricket; his sole minor counties appearance came against Hertfordshire in the 1895 Minor Counties Championship.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6929/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html|title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Frederick Willoughby|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=11 September 2023|url-access=subscription}} He later stood as an umpire in the Minor Counties Championship in 1904 and 1905,{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6929/Umpire_in_Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html|title=Frederick Willoughby as Umpire in Minor Counties Championship Matches|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=11 September 2023|url-access=subscription}} before standing in 21 first-class matches in 1906.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6929/Umpire_in_First-Class_Matches.html|title=Frederick Willoughby as Umpire in First-Class Matches|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=11 September 2023|url-access=subscription}} Willoughby returned to Hampshire in his latter years, where he was resident at Eastleigh. He died there in April 1952, eleven days short of his 90th birthday.