Frederick William Herbert Nicholas (25 July 1893 – 20 October 1962) was an English

first-class cricket 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 officia ...

er who played for Essex County Cricket Club in a first-class career that spanned from 1912 to 1929. He also played

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

as a forward for Great Britain at the 1920 Olympics and for the Corinthian club, for whom he scored 28 goals in 54 appearances. The cricketer and broadcaster

Mark Nicholas Mark Charles Jefford Nicholas (born 29 September 1957) is an English cricket commentator and former cricketer and broadcaster. He played for Hampshire from 1978 to 1995, captaining them from 1985 to his retirement. Nicholas was born in West ...

is his grandson.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nicholas, Fred 1893 births 1962 deaths English cricketers Essex cricketers Bedfordshire cricketers Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford People educated at Forest School, Walthamstow English footballers Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Gentlemen of the South cricketers Harlequins cricketers Association football forwards Corinthian F.C. players Sportspeople from Kuala Lumpur Sir Julien Cahn's XI cricketers English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 S. B. Joel's XI cricketers Olympic footballers of Great Britain