Fred Grant (cricketer)
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| Full name | Frederick Geddes Grant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 October 1891 Port of Spain, Trinidad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 June 1946 (aged 54) York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1924/25–1926/27 | Trinidad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Frederick Geddes Grant OBE (4 October 1891 – 26 June 1946)[1] was a Trinidadian cricketer, cricket administrator and businessman.
Life and career
[edit]Fred Grant was the oldest of 10 children of Thomas Geddes Grant (born in Canada in 1866), who founded a trading company, T. Geddes Grant, in Trinidad in 1901. He was born in 1891 in Port of Spain, where he went to school at Queen's Royal College, and later had his university education in Canada.[2]
A middle-order batsman and change bowler, Grant played six first-class matches for Trinidad between 1925 and 1927. When Trinidad won the final of the Inter-Colonial Tournament in 1925-26 he top-scored in Trinidad's successful run-chase in the second innings with 45.[3] He captained Trinidad in 1926-27 when they lost the final to Barbados after leading by 384 on the first innings.[4]
Grant was President of the West Indies Cricket Board of Control in the 1930s.[5] His younger brothers Jack and Rolph captained the West Indies Test team in the 1930s.
Fred Grant was awarded the OBE in 1935.[6] After the death of his father he led the family company, T. Geddes Grant, until his own death.[7] He died suddenly of heart failure in June 1946 while visiting one of his brothers in Toronto.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Frederick Grant". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ Jack Grant, Jack Grant's Story, Lutterworth, Guildford and London, 1980, pp. 1–10.
- ^ "British Guiana v Trinidad 1925-26". Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ "Barbados v Trinidad 1926-27". Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ Grant, Jack Grant's Story, p. 51.
- ^ "Colonial Office Honours List, Birthday 1935". National Archives. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
- ^ Grant, Jack Grant's Story, p. 81.
- ^ "Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1948 for Frederick Geddes Grant". Ancestry. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
External links
[edit]- 1891 births
- 1946 deaths
- Cricketers from Port of Spain
- Alumni of Queen's Royal College, Trinidad
- Trinidad and Tobago cricketers
- 20th-century Trinidad and Tobago businesspeople
- Trinidad and Tobago cricket administrators
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- Grant family (Trinidad and Tobago)
- Trinidad and Tobago emigrants to Canada