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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Dudley Docker
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| club1 = [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club|Derbyshire]]
| year1 = {{ubl|1881–1882}}
▲| type1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| debutdate1 = 22 August
| debutyear1 = 1881
| debutfor1 =
| debutagainst1 = [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]]
| lastdate1 = 5 June
| lastyear1 = 1882
| lastfor1 =
| lastagainst1 = [[Surrey County Cricket Club|Surrey]]
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| runs1 = 33
| bat avg1 = 11.00
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| top score1 = 25
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▲| catches/stumpings1= 3/-
| date = 20 June
| year = 2011
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29101/29101.html CricketArchive
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'''Frank Dudley Docker''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CB}} (26 August 1862 – 8 July 1944) was an English businessman and financier. He also played first-class [[cricket]] for [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club|Derbyshire]] in 1881 and 1882.
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===Family background, early life and education===
Docker was born at Paxton House, [[Smethwick]], [[Staffordshire]], the son of Ralph Docker and his second wife, Sarah Maria (1830-1890), daughter of horse dealer Richard Sankey. His first wife was Sarah's elder sister, Mary Ann (1826-1849), with whom he had three daughters. Following some years as a widower, Ralph married Sarah, with whom he would have five sons and four daughters. Ralph Docker was a solicitor in practice at [[Birmingham]] and Smethwick who took on a large number of public appointments, including Coroner for North Worcestershire; at the time of his retirement, two days before his death in 1887, Ralph Docker was the oldest and longest-serving Coroner in England.<ref name="Dudley Docker 1984, p. 11">Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior, R. P. T. Davenport-Hines, Cambridge University Press, 1984, p. 11</ref> The Docker family's fortunes were set in motion by Thomas Docker, a Moseley brass founder; the descendants of his six sons and three daughters were established in the Midlands as professionals or gentlemen of private means. Despite Dudley Docker's own strong family loyalties, he was not given to ancestor-worship or devotion to genealogy; the notably brief pedigrees in the Burke's Landed Gentry editions of 1921 and 1937 in which he appears as head of the family of 'Docker of the Gables' contain numerous errors supplied by Docker himself- he provided erroneous information relating to the dates of his father's birth and death, his mother's death, and the name of his maternal grandfather.<ref name="Dudley Docker 1984, p. 11"/>▼
[[File:Paxton House, South Road, Smethwick.jpg|thumb|Paxton House, seen in 2020]]
Docker attended [[King Edward's School, Birmingham]] but appears to have resisted formal schooling and left early. He was equally discontented when he went into his father's office to study law. In 1881 he left his father's firm and went into the varnish business with his brother William.<ref name="books.google.com">[https://books.google.com/books?id=kHx7hVRhKfYC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=%22Docker+brothers%22&source=bl&ots=cLk4T8lH-8&sig=HkVGecOb6jFanCuE2vLPZ7lY650&hl=en&ei=K8-VSfvrCoTHjAfj3M21Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPA12,M1 R. P. T. Davenport-Hines ''Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior'' Cambridge University Press 2004]</ref>▼
▲Docker was born at Paxton House, [[Smethwick]], [[Staffordshire]], the son of Ralph Docker and his second wife, Sarah Maria (
▲Docker attended [[King Edward's School, Birmingham]] but appears to have resisted formal schooling and left early. He was equally discontented when he went into his father's office to study law. In 1881 he left his father's firm and went into the varnish business with his brother William.<ref name="books.google.com">[https://books.google.com/books?id=kHx7hVRhKfYC
===Cricketer===
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===Paint and varnish===
In 1886 a third brother [[Ludford Docker|Ludford]] joined Docker Brothers and the death of his father in 1887 brought more capital into the firm. The varnish business grew into more general paint supply, and in 1894 the company opened a London office reflecting their success in winning orders from railway and rolling stock companies and Docker developed his interest and success in making deals. In 1902 he arranged the amalgamation of five rolling stock companies into the Metropolitan Amalgamated Carriage and Wagon Company, one of the largest business combines of the time which in 1911 employed 14,000 people and occupied {{convert|475|acre|km2}} of factory space.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22965 ''Economic and Social History: Industry and Trade, 1880–1960'', A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 7: The City of Birmingham (1964), pp. 140–208. Date accessed: 14 February 2009]</ref> In 1906 he became a director of [[Birmingham Small Arms Company]], the arms manufacturer which also grew into a leading motorcycle company. In 1908 he became a director of [[W & T Avery Ltd.]], manufacturers of weighing equipment. He became a [[Justice of the Peace|J. P.]] in 1909 and his interests diversified into railways with directorship of [[Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway]] from 1909 to 1912, the [[Metropolitan Railway]]
<ref name="Devils Chariots" >{{Cite book
|title=The Devil's Chariots
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|year=2001
|isbn=0-7509-4152-9
|page=94
}}</ref> He was also a director of the [[Midland Bank]] from 1912 until his death.<ref name="books.google.com"/> He was one of the founders of the [[Federation of British Industry]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=SM-Sp8OxcAsC
===Death, family, and recognition===
Docker married Lucy Constance, daughter of distinguished Birmingham legal figure John Benbow Hebbert (
Docker was a substantial benefactor (£10,000) toward [[Ernest Shackleton]]'s [[Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition]] in 1914–1916. In recompense for donations toward the success of the expedition, Shackleton named one of the lifeboats aboard the expedition vessel the ''Dudley Docker''. The benefaction proved significant when the expedition vessel sank and the castaways were forced to use the ''Dudley Docker'' for survival.
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==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[R P T Davenport-Hines]],
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[[Category:Sportspeople from Smethwick]]
[[Category:English justices of the peace]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Staffordshire]]
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