Frederick Somerset Gough Calthorpe (27 May 1892 – 19 November 1935), styled The Honourable from 1912, was an English

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er. Born in London, Calthorpe ("pronounced with the first syllable rhyming with 'tall' and not with 'shall'") was a member of the Gough-Calthorpe family, the son of Somerset Frederick Gough-Calthorpe, who inherited the title of 8th Baron Calthorpe in 1912. Freddie Calthorpe was educated at Windlesham House School, Repton and

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.CALTHORPE, Hon. Frederick Somerset Gough-
Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014, accessed 12 November 2016) He served in the

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during

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. In a first-class career that extended from 1911 to 1935, Calthorpe played cricket for

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and

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. He toured with

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(MCC) to

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and New Zealand in 1922–23, a trip that also served as a honeymoon for him and his bride Dorothy. He captained Warwickshire from 1920 to 1929, and also led a strong MCC team on a tour of the West Indies in 1925–26. He captained England in his only four Test matches: on the first ever Test tour of the West Indies in 1929–30, which was drawn 1–1. This tour was played simultaneously to another England Test tour to New Zealand, where England were captained by Harold Gilligan. During the tour, in a speech he gave in

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, he condemned the bowling tactic, later known as

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, which had been used by the West Indian fast bowler Learie Constantine. He died of cancerRyder, ''Cricket Calling'', p. 114. in Worplesdon,

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. Calthorpe is distantly related to the

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commentator

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, and more closely to the England captain H. D. G. Leveson Gower and the early cricket patron John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset.

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