Frederick Maxwell Bury (26 February 1836 – 4 July 1885) was an English

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er who played two first-class matches for Demerara, an antecedent of the present Guyanese national side, while resident in

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in the 1860s. Bury was born in Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, in 1836, where his father was the vicar.Frederick Bury
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2014. He was the second of three brothers who all played first-class cricket – Thomas William (1831–1918) played for Cambridge University, and William (1839–1927) played for Cambridge University, Nottinghamshire, and Gentlemen of the North. Frederick Bury made his debut for Demerara in what was retrospectively considered the inaugural first-class match in the West Indies, played against Barbados at the

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, Bridgetown, in February 1865. In that match, he opened the batting with Calvin Gilbert in each innings, but scored only seven runs across two innings as Demerara was dismissed for 22 and 38 – no Demeraran made double figures. Bury took two wickets in Barbados' innings of 74 and 124, with Barbados winning the match by 138 runs. In the return fixture, at the Parade Ground, Georgetown, in September 1865, Bury and Gilbert, the two opening batsmen of the previous match, batted much lower in the batting order. The match was again a low-scoring encounter, with Demerara faring better than the previous encounter, eventually winning the match by two wickets after an unbeaten 39 not out from replacement opener William Watson. Bury took a single wicket in Barbados' first innings, that of Augustus Smith, but went wicketless in the second innings.Demerara v Barbados
First-Class matches in West Indies 1865/66 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2014. Bury eventually returned to England, dying at

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, in July 1885, aged 49.

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1836 births 1885 deaths Cricketers from Nottinghamshire Demerara cricketers English cricketers English expatriate sportspeople in Guyana People from Radcliffe-on-Trent {{England-cricket-bio-1830s-stub