Fred Grace
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Full name | George Frederick Grace | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Downend, South Gloucestershire, England |
13 December 1850|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Basingstoke, Hampshire, England |
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Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling style | Right arm fast (roundarm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Occasional wicket-keeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | E. M. Grace, W. G. Grace (brothers), Walter Gilbert (cousin) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Only Test (cap 23) | 6 September 1880 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1870–1880 | Gloucestershire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 1 October 2009 |
George Frederick "Fred" Grace (1850–1880) was the youngest of the three Grace brothers to play Test cricket for England.
Although his elder brothers E. M. and W. G. were always "known by (their) initials", the younger Grace was known as Fred, although his initials were used in scorecards like those of all other English cricketers.[1][2][3]
Career
Born 13 December 1850 in Bristol, Grace was "an attractive batsman",[citation needed] but one who "lacked the concentration and resolve to build a long innings".[citation needed] Like his two famous brothers he made a duck on his first-class debut.[citation needed] Grace was selected along with his two brothers to play in the inaugural Test in England, which took place at The Oval in 1880 against Australia.[citation needed] He was out for nought in both innings but held a "skyscraping catch" at the Vauxhall End off the giant Australian batsman George Bonnor.[citation needed]
Death
On 22 September 1880, two weeks after his Test appearance, Fred Grace died in Basingstoke, Hampshire of pneumonia, caught, it was said, as the result of sleeping in a damp bed.[2] W. R. Gilbert, a cousin of the Graces, wrote to The Daily Telegraph: "It having come to my knowledge there is a rumour abroad that Mr. G. F. Grace's fatal illness was caused by sleeping in a damp bed at the Red Lion Hotel, Basingstoke, I beg to contradict it. He had a bad cold before he left home, and on my arrival at Basingstoke he told me that he had received another chill whilst waiting at Reading Station. By inserting this you will greatly oblige me, and also do justice to the members of a family whose attention and kindness to my cousin all through his illness could not have been surpassed had he been at home." The Times wrote, "His manly and straightforward conduct and genial manners won him not only popularity, but the esteem of hosts and friends".[citation needed] Three thousand people followed his coffin and the touring Australians wore black armbands during their last match.[citation needed]
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External links
- EngvarB from August 2013
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- W. G. Grace
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