Freddie Calthorpe
Frederick Somerset Gough Calthorpe, styled The Honourable from 1912, was an English first-class cricketer.
Born in London, Calthorpe 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 Jesus College, Cambridge.
Calthorpe played cricket for Sussex, Cambridge University, Warwickshire and England. 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.
His first-class career extended from 1911 to 1935. He captained Warwickshire from 1920 to 1929, and also led a strong Marylebone Cricket Club team on a tour of the West Indies in 1925–26.
He died of cancer in Worplesdon, Surrey.
Calthorpe is distantly related to the cricket commentator Henry Blofeld, and more closely to the England captain H. D. G. Leveson Gower and the early cricket patron John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset.
