Frederick Norman

Frederick Henry Norman (23 January 1839 – 6 October 1916) was an English merchant banker and a director of the merchant bank Brown, Shipley & Co.. He was also a first-class cricketer, appearing for Kent, Cambridge University, Cambridge Town Club (aka Cambridgeshire) and some amateur teams. He was born at Bromley Common, Kent and died in Mayfair, London.

The Norman family 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, also a first-class cricketer, became a merchant banker too with Baring Brothers. He was appointed High Sheriff of Hertfordshire for 1899.

Norman was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He played in the Eton v Harrow cricket matches in four seasons from 1854 to 1857 as a right-handed middle-order batsman. At Cambridge University in 1858 he went straight into the first team for cricket and in his first first-class match, against the Cambridge Town Club, he made 100, putting on 160 for the fourth wicket with William Benthall 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 University Match against Oxford University; 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 match at Lord's, which the Players team won decisively. Right at the end of the season, he played a single game for Kent which Sussex, largely through the bowling of John Wisden and Jemmy Dean, also won easily. In neither of these games did he reach double figures.

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