Frederick Luther Fane, (27 April 1875 – 27 November 1960) played
cricket
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for the
England cricket team
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in 14
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es. He also played for
Essex
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,
Oxford University
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and
London County.
Fane was born at
Curragh Camp
The Curragh Camp ( ga, Campa an Churraigh) is an army base and military college in The Curragh, County Kildare, Ireland. It is the main training centre for the Irish Defence Forces and is home to 2,000 military personnel.
History
Longstanding ...
in County Kildare, Ireland, where his father Frederick John Fane, an officer in the British Army, was stationed with the
61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
The 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1756. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot to form the Gloucestershire Regiment ...
. He was a great-grandson of
John Fane, a politician, of the family of the
Earls of Westmorland
Earl of Westmorland is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of England. The title was first created in 1397 for Ralph Neville. It was forfeited in 1571 by Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland, for leading the Rising of the North ...
. He was educated at
Charterhouse School and
Magdalen College, Oxford.
Fane captained the England cricket team on five occasions: three times when he took over from the injured
Arthur Jones, and twice when he took over from
H. D. G. Leveson Gower
Sir Henry Dudley Gresham Leveson Gower ( ; 8 May 1873 – 1 February 1954) was an English cricketer from the Leveson-Gower family. He played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Surrey and captained England in Test cricket. His school n ...
. He won two and lost three of these games.
He was the first Irish-born player to score a
century in a
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* Test match (rugby union)
* Test match (rugby league)
* Test match (association football)
...
for England and remained the only one for over a hundred years, until
Eoin Morgan repeated the feat against Pakistan at Trent Bridge in July 2010.
During the
First World War
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Fane was
commissioned in the
West Yorkshire Regiment
)
, march = ''Ça Ira''
, battles = Namur FontenoyFalkirk Culloden Brandywine
, anniversaries = Imphal (22 June)
The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) (14th Foot) wa ...
. He was awarded the
Military Cross
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The MC ...
in 1917 "for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty while commanding a patrol. Having obtained valuable information, he withdrew his men from a difficult position under heavy machine gun fire. He displayed the greatest coolness and determination."
See also
*
List of Test cricketers born in non-Test playing nations
This is a list of Test cricket
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1875 births
1960 deaths
Frederick Luther
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People educated at Charterhouse School
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Recipients of the Military Cross
H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers
Lord Hawke's XI cricketers
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