Frederick Bury

Frederick Maxwell Bury (26 February 1836 – 4 July 1885) was an English cricketer who played two first-class matches for Demerara, an antecedent of the present Guyanese national side, while resident in British Guiana in the 1860s.

Bury was born in Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, in 1836, where his father was the vicar.^[1] He was the second of three brothers who all played first-class cricket – Thomas William (1831–1918) played for Cambridge University, and William (1839–1927) played for Cambridge University, Nottinghamshire, and .^[2][3] Frederick Bury made his debut for Demerara in what was retrospectively considered the inaugural first-class match in the West Indies, played against Barbados at the Garrison Savannah, Bridgetown, in February 1865.^[4] In that match, he opened the batting with in each innings, but scored only seven runs across two innings as Demerara was dismissed for 22 and 38 – no Demeraran made double figures. Bury took two wickets in Barbados' innings of 74 and 124, with Barbados winning the match by 138 runs.^[5]

In the return fixture, at the , Georgetown, in September 1865, Bury and Gilbert, the two opening batsmen of the previous match, batted much lower in the batting order. The match was again a low-scoring encounter, with Demerara faring better than the previous encounter, eventually winning the match by two wickets after an unbeaten 39 not out from replacement opener . Bury took a single wicket in Barbados' first innings, that of Augustus Smith, but went wicketless in the second innings.^[6] Bury eventually returned to England, dying at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, in July 1885, aged 49.^[1]

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