Frederick Bowley (cricketer, born 1909)
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Frederick James Bowley (20 February 1909 – October 1994) was an English first-class cricketer, who played for Leicestershire.
Family Life
[edit]He was born at Ratby, Leicestershire in 1909 to Frederick James and Emma Bowley. His brother Herrick Bowley born in 1911, also played for Leicestershire in the 1930s.
Cricket career
[edit]Bowley played 24 County Championship matches for Leicestershire, three in 1930, ten in 1931 and eleven in 1937. He batted right-handed and bowled slow left-arm orthodox.[1]
His bowling was the better element of his play in an otherwise undistinguished career, taking 5 wickets @41.80 in 1930, 18 @31.16 in 1931, and 17 @54.05 in 1937.
Fred Bowley rarely reached double figures with the bat, his top score of 25 coming in a 1937 match against Sussex when he was bowled by Maurice Tate having completed a century partnership with Stuart Dempster.
Later life and death
[edit]At the time World War Two broke out he was a threshing machine operator and lived with his parents in Blaby, Leicestershire[2]
He died in October 1994 at Leicester.
References
[edit]- ^ Frederick Bowley at ESPNcricinfo
- ^ Ancestry.com. 1939 England and Wales Register [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018.
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