Frederic Price (cricketer, born 1852)

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Frederic William Stephen Price (26 February 1852 – 22 December 1937) was an English clergyman and schoolmaster, and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and an England XI.[1] He was born in Lutterworth, Leicestershire and died at Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex. In some sources and on census returns, his first name is spelled "Frederick".[2]

Price was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.[2] As a cricketer, he was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler.[1] He played in three matches in the 1873 season and appeared in the trial for the Cambridge eleven in 1874, but his only first-class game that season was for an England XI against the university side, and he did not play again.[1]

Price graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1875, converting it to a Master of Arts in 1881.[2] He became a priest in the Church of England and was curate at Bray, Berkshire to 1884.[2] He then became a schoolmaster at Ovingdean Hall School near Brighton, at that time a preparatory school, but he returned to church duties as vicar of Bedwyn, Wiltshire from 1909 and then, from 1911 to 1922, as rector of Stanton St Quintin, also in Wiltshire.[2] He then retired to Shoreham where he died in 1937.

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  1. ^ a b c "Frederic Price". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e J. Venn and J. A. Venn. "Alumni Cantabrigienses: Frederick Price". p. 192. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
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