Sir Frank Hubert Hollins, 3rd Baronet (31 October 1877 – 31 January 1963) was an English

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er active from 1898 to 1927 who played for

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. He was born in

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and died in

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. He appeared in 35

first-class matches First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

as a righthanded

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. He scored 1,114 runs with a highest score of 114 and held 33 catches. He took three

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s with a best analysis of two for 39. Hollins was the second son of Sir Frank Hollins, 1st Baronet, who was head of the cotton spinning company of Horrockses, Crewdson & Co. He was educated at

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and

Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalen College (, ) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1458 by William of Waynflete. Today, it is the fourth wealthiest college, with a financial endowment of £332.1 million as of 2019 and one of the s ...

. During

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he served with the

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in France. He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1938 on the death of his brother, who had no children. He also had no children and the baronetcy became extinct on his death.HOLLINS, Sir Frank Hubert
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1877 births 1963 deaths English cricketers Lancashire cricketers Oxford University cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers People educated at Eton College Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Rifle Brigade officers British Army personnel of World War I Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Oxford University Authentics cricketers A. J. Webbe's XI cricketers People from Bowness-on-Windermere R. A. Bennett's XI cricketers {{england-cricket-bio-1870s-stub