13 Facts About Frederick Hutchings

Frederick Vaughan Hutchings was an English amateur cricketer who played in four first-class cricket matches in the early years of the 20th century.

Frederick Hutchings served in the Army Service Corps in the First World War and was seriously injured.

Frederick Hutchings's father was a surgeon and had been a keen cricketer.

Frederick Hutchings was educated at Tonbridge School where he played in the cricket team as a right-handed opening batsman from 1896 to 1899 and represented the school at rackets at Queen's Club in 1898.

Frederick Hutchings topped the school cricket averages in 1897 and scored a century against Oxford Authentics in the same season.

Frederick Hutchings left the school in 1899 and worked as a stockbroker's clerk on the London Stock Exchange.

Frederick Hutchings played again against the touring South Africans later the same month but did not play again until a single appearance for the county in 1905.

Frederick Hutchings was attached to the Holt Caterpillar Section at Aldershot and then at the Avonmouth Tractor Depot.

Frederick Hutchings was seriously injured in an accident at Aldershot in 1916 and in 1917 was stationed at Larkhill on Salisbury Plain when he was fit for light duties.

Frederick Hutchings was awarded the Silver War Badge and in 1918 was employed by the Admiralty at Woolwich Arsenal.

Frederick Hutchings married Maud Spens at Chelsea, London in May 1907.

Frederick Hutchings was still working at the Stock Exchange at this time, but by the start of the war was supporting himself through private income and was the secretary of a golf course.

Frederick Hutchings died suddenly at Hamburg in Germany in August 1934 aged 54.