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Frederick Henry Norman (23 January 1839 – 6 October 1916) was an English merchant banker and a director of the

merchant bank A merchant bank is historically a bank dealing in commercial loans and investment. In modern British usage, it is the same as an investment bank. Merchant banks were the first modern banks and evolved from medieval merchants who traded in comm ...

Brown, Shipley & Co. He was also a first-class

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, appearing for

Kent Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ...

Cambridge University The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

Cambridge Town Club Cambridge Town Club (CTC) was a first-class cricket club established in Cambridge before 1817. Among notable players who represented CTC were Tom Hayward senior, Robert Carpenter and George Tarrant. It co-existed with Cambridge University Cr ...

(''aka'' Cambridgeshire) and some

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teams. He was born at

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and died in

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.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 410–411.
Available online
at the

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. Retrieved 7 August 2022.) The

Norman family The Norman family became prominent in British banking circles from about 1820 to 1950. The most prominent member of the family was Sir Montagu Norman, the powerful Governor of the Bank of England from 1920 to 1944. * George Warde Norman (1793–1 ...

have a long history in English banking. Frederick was the fourth son of George Warde Norman (1793–1882), a director of the Bank of England from 1821 to 1872. His older brother

Charles Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''* ...

, also a first-class cricketer, became a merchant banker too with

Baring Brothers Barings Bank was a British merchant bank based in London. It was one of England's oldest merchant banks after Berenberg Bank, Barings' close collaborator and German representative. It was founded in 1762 by Francis Baring, a British-born member ...

. He was appointed

High Sheriff of Hertfordshire The High Sheriff of Hertfordshire was an ancient Sheriff title originating in the time of the Angles, not long after the foundation of the Kingdom of England, which was in existence for around a thousand years. On 1 April 1974, under the provi ...

for 1899.

Cricket career

Norman was educated at

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and at

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any ...

. He played in the

Eton v Harrow The Eton v Harrow cricket match is an annual match between public school rivals Eton College and Harrow School. It is the oldest modern sporting rivalry between two schools, one of the longest-running annual sporting fixtures in the world and ...

cricket matches in four seasons from 1854 to 1857 as a right-handed middle-order batsman. At

in 1858 he went straight into the first team for cricket and in his first first-class match, against the

, he made 100, putting on 160 for the fourth wicket with

William Benthall William Henry Benthall (3 July 1837 – 4 January 1909) was an English first-class cricketer active 1858–68 who played for Middlesex. He played in 37 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman, scoring 1,030 runs with a highest score of 103. ...

who made 103 and was also making his first-class cricket debut. He retained his place in the Cambridge side across the season and was picked for the

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against

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; in this game, he top-scored for Cambridge with 43 in the first innings but failed, with the rest of the side, in the second innings when the whole team was dismissed for just 39. At the end of the university cricket season, Norman was picked for the 1858

Gentlemen v Players Gentlemen v Players was a long-running series of cricket matches that began in July 1806 and was abolished in January 1963. It was a match between a team consisting of amateurs (the Gentlemen) and a team consisting of professionals (the Players ...

match at

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, which the Players team won decisively. Right at the end of the season, he played a single game for Kent which

Sussex Sussex (Help:IPA/English, /ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English ''Sūþseaxe''; lit. 'South Saxons'; 'Sussex') is an area within South East England that was historically a kingdom of Sussex, kingdom and, later, a Historic counties of England, ...

, largely through the bowling of

John Wisden John Wisden (5 September 1826 – 5 April 1884) was an English cricketer who played 187 first-class cricket matches for three English county cricket teams, Kent, Middlesex and Sussex. His father, William, was a builder. He attended Brighton's ...

and

Jemmy Dean James "Jemmy" Dean (4 January 1816 – 25 December 1881) was an English first-class cricketer with professional status. Mainly associated with Sussex, he is recorded in 305 matches from 1835 to 1861 which are generally designated first-class, ...

, also won easily. In neither of these games did he reach double figures. Norman retained his place in the Cambridge first team through 1859 and 1860 and was captain in the second of these years, leading his team to victory in the 1860 University Match, which was a very low-scoring game. He also appeared in intermittent matches for Kent through to 1864. His second century and highest first-class score was an innings of 103 for the Gentlemen of Kent team against the Gentlemen of England in 1859. His final first-class game was for an amateur side in 1866, but he played for the

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nomadic amateur side through to the 1870s.

Marriage and family

He married Lina Susan Penelope Collet (1850–1950), a daughter of Sir Mark Wilks Collet, 1st

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, of St. Clere, Ightham, Sevenoaks, on 15 November 1870. Their children were: *Sir

Montagu Norman Montagu Collet Norman, 1st Baron Norman DSO PC (6 September 1871 – 4 February 1950) was an English banker, best known for his role as the Governor of the Bank of England from 1920 to 1944. Norman led the bank during the toughest period in ...

, 1st Baron Norman (6 September 1871 – 4 February 1950),Henry Clay. ''Lord Norman''. St. Martin's Press, 1957. p 495 a long serving

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and *

Ronald Collet Norman Ronald Collet Norman JP (15 November 1873 – 5 December 1963) was a banker, administrator and politician. He was chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC from 1935 to 1939 and of the London County Council from 1918 to 1919. Biography ...

(15 November 1873 – 5 December 1963), who chaired the

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and the

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References

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Frederick Frederick may refer to: People * Frederick (given name), the name Given name Nobility = Anhalt-Harzgerode = * Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1613–1670) = Austria = * Frederick I, Duke of Austria (Babenberg), Duke of Austria fro ...

People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge R. D. Walker's XI cricketers 19th-century English businesspeople