Sir Frederick Hutchison Hervey-Bathurst, 3rd Baronet (6 June 1807 – 29 October 1881) was an English

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er who played for Hampshire, MCC and the Gentlemen of England. He was a right-handed

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who bowled right-arm roundarm fast.

Career

Hervey-Bathurst made his first-class debut in 1831 for the Bs against an early

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side. He made his debut for the

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against the

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. Hervey-Bathurst would represent the MCC in 28 first-class matches up until 1855. In his 28 matches for the club, he scored 306 runs at a

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of 7.46 and with a high score of 34. With the ball he took 63 wickets at a bowling average of 12.00, with best figures in an innings of 6/?. In 1842, he made his debut for

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against the Marylebone Cricket Club. Hervey-Bathurst represented Hampshire in 12 first-class matches between 1842 and 1861. In his 12 matches, he scored 203 runs at an average of 9.22 and a high score of 46. With the ball he took 72 wickets at an average of 14.23, with a best return of 7 wickets in an innings, although his exact best figures are unknown. Hervey-Bathurst was one of three local gentlemen (alongside Thomas Chamberlayne and Sir John Barker-Mill) who financed the development of the

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, Southampton, and installed the former Hampshire and Surrey cricketer Daniel Day in the Antelope Hotel. As well as representing the above major sides, he also represented the Gentlemen in 20

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fixtures, where he took 73 wickets at an average of 11.25, with best figures of 7/?. He also represented the

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in 12 first-class matches, where he took 88 wickets at an average of 19.40, with a best return of 6 wickets in an innings. Hervey-Bathurst also represented A to K, England, the Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club, the Gentlemen of the South, the

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and the West of England. In his overall first-class career he played 92 matches, scoring 817 runs at an average of 9.92, with a high score of 46. With the ball he took 349 wickets at an average of 13.02, with 32

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s, 8

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s, and a best return of 7 wickets in an innings, although his exact figures are unknown. Hervey-Bathurst died at Clarendon Park, Wiltshire on 19 October 1881.

Family

Hervey-Bathurst was the start of a cricketing family. He was the father of Frederick Hervey-Bathurst, 4th Baronet who represented both the MCC and the Hampshire team as well as Hampshire County Cricket Club. His other son, Lionel Hervey-Bathurst represented Hampshire in two first-class matches in 1875. His great-grandson

Hervey Tudway Hervey Robert Charles Tudway (23 September 1888 – 18 November 1914) was a member of a long-established family from Wells, Somerset who played one first-class cricket match for Somerset in 1910. He was born at Westminster, London and died ...

played one first-class match for

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in 1910 and fought in the

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; he was killed in action in 1914.

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