Frederick Schomberg Ireland (6 April 1860 – 16 March 1937) was an English lawyer and merchant who played

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as an amateur. Ireland was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm roundarm.

Cricket

Ireland played club cricket for Blackheath in Kent. He made his

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debut for

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against

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in May 1878 at

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. He played a further first-class match that season against

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. He next appeared for Kent in 1887, picked after scoring a century for Kent's Second XI against Blackheath. He played twice that year, against

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and

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. During the early 1880s Ireland had been active in club cricket at Sidmouth in

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and had played for

against MCC at Lord's in 1883.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 292–293.
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at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)Frederick Ireland
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-11-21. He was secretary of Blackheath Cricket Club between 1886 and 1891 and played for a variety of amateur sides in Kent, including the Gentlemen of Kent and Band of Brothers. Ireland's nephew, John Frederick Ireland, also played cricket and made 28 first-class appearances between 1908 and 1912.

Life

Ireland was born at

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,Frederick Ireland

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. Retrieved 2017-11-21. the son of

George Ireland George Ireland (June 15, 1913 – September 14, 2001) was an American basketball coach who led the Loyola Ramblers to the 1963 NCAA championship. Background Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Ireland was an All-American basketball player at the Univer ...

, one of the founders of Ireland Fraser & Co. in Mauritius, and his wife, Emily Hartshorne, the daughter of Hugh Hartshorne, a barrister from

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.George Ireland and Emily Hartshorne, 9 October 1856, ''Liverpool, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1921'', p.106. Ancestry.com. Retrieved 2018-07-01. He was the grandson of The Rev. Dr. Walter Foggo Ireland, minister of the North Leith Parish Church.Deaths, ''The Dundee Courier'', 14 February 1879. Ireland was named after his maternal uncle by marriage, Vice Admiral

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(1815-1874). He was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School and trained as a lawyer. After working briefly in the profession he became a merchant like his father, living most of his working life in the

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and Charlton areas of

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. He married Edith Mary in 1861. The couple's daughter, Enid Ireland, married Francis Egerton Pegler, one of the founders of the company now known as

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.Mr. E. F. Pegler of Retford, and Miss Ireland, ''Sheffield Independent'', 8 June 1914. Her son,

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, is known in railway circles as the saviour of the Flying Scotsman 4472 steam locomotive. An able golfer, Ireland's most memorable achievements at his home course, the Royal Blackeath Golf Club, are detailed in

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's book ''

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''.Obituary, Alan Pegler
''

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'', 20 March 2012. Retrieved 2018-07-05. Shortly before

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Ireland moved to Mildenhall in

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where he served as a

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. Edith died in 1914 and he remarried in 1921.''London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932'', 14 September 1921, p.195. Ancestry.com. Ireland died at Menton in the south of France in March 1937 aged 76.

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