Frederick Willoughby

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.[1] 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.[2] As a lower order batsman, he scored 60 runs with a highest score of 19.[3] With Hampshire losing their first-class status following that season, he continued to play minor matches for the county in 1886.[4] Around the as he played first-class cricket for Hampshire, Willoughby founded the now defunct Botley F.C.[5]

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.[6] There, he initially began playing minor matches for Worcestershire in 1890,[4] 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.[7] He later stood as an umpire in the Minor Counties Championship in 1904 and 1905,[8] before standing in 21 first-class matches in 1906.[9] Willoughby returned to Hampshire in his latter years, where he was resident at Eastleigh.[5] He died there in April 1952, eleven days short of his 90th birthday.