For the colonial administrator, see Henry Bartle Frere

Henry Bartle Frere

Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCSI, was a British colonial administrator.-Early life:Frere was born at Clydach House, Clydach, Monmouthshire, the son of Edward Frere, manager of Clydach Ironworks...

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Henry Tobias Frere (27 September 1830 – 15 August 1881) was an English

English people

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 cricketer

Cricketer

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. Frere was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm roundarm

Roundarm bowling

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 fast

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 and who played occasionally as a wicketkeeper.

Frere made his first-class

First-class cricket

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 debut for Hampshire (pre county club)

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 against an All-England Eleven

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 in 1850. Frere played a number of non first-class matches for pre county club Hampshire and numerous other sides from 1850 to 1863. In 1855 Frere made his second first-class appearance, this time for the Gentlemen of England against the Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

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Three years later Frere made played two matches for the Gentlemen, the first of which came in the 1858 Gentlemen v Players

Gentlemen v Players

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 fixture and the second of which came for the Gentlemen of the South against the Gentlemen of the North. The following season Frere played in the same two fixtures once again.

In 1863 Frere played for Hampshire County Cricket Club

Hampshire County Cricket Club

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 in the year of their founding in two non first-class matches against Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

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. In 1864 Frere made his first-class debut for the county club against Sussex

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. Despite keeping wicket in the match, Frere took 2/20 from twenty overs

Over (cricket)

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. From 1864 to 1868, Frere played six first-class matches for Hampshire with his final first-class match for the county coming in 1866 agains the Marylebone Cricket Club. In his six matches for the county, Frere scored 92 runs at a batting average

Batting average

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 of 10.22, with a high score of 23. With the ball Frere took 6 wickets at a bowling average

Bowling average

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 of 41.33, with best figures of 2/20. Behind the stumps Frere took five catches and made two stumpings.

In 1868 Frere made his final first-class appearance, representing Sussex in a single first-class match against Middlesex

Middlesex County Cricket Club

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In Frere's overall first-class career he scored 177 runs at a batting average of 9.83, with a high score of 26. With the ball Frere took 24 wickets at a bowling average of 26.95, with one five wicket haul for the Gentlemen of the South against the Gentlemen of the North in 1859 which yielded him career best figures of 5-20.

Frere died at Westbourne

Westbourne, Dorset

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, Hampshire

Hampshire

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 on August 15, 1881.

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