Frederick Hutchings

Frederick Vaughan Hutchings (3 June 1880 – 6 August 1934) was an English amateur cricketer who played in four first-class cricket matches in the early years of the 20th century. He served in the Army Service Corps in the First World War and was seriously injured.

Early life Hutchings was born at Southborough near Tunbridge Wells in Kent, the second son of Edward and Catherine Hutchings. His father was a surgeon and had been a keen cricketer. He was educated at Tonbridge School where he played in the cricket team as a right-handed opening batsman from 1896 to 1899 and represented the school at rackets at Queen's Club in 1898. He topped the school cricket averages in 1897 and scored a century against Oxford Authentics in the same season.

Cricket career After a single appearance for the Kent County Cricket Club Second XI in 1899, Hutchings made his first-class cricket debut for the county in May 1901 against MCC at Lord's. He played again against the touring South Africans later the same month but did not play again until a single appearance for the county in 1905. His final first-class match was for MCC against Yorkshire in August 1905. In his four first-class matches he made a total of 89 runs with a highest score of 31. He did not bowl. He was attached to the Holt Caterpillar Section at Aldershot and then at the Avonmouth Tractor Depot. Hutchings was seriously injured in an accident at Aldershot in 1916 and in 1917 was stationed at Larkhill on Salisbury Plain when he was fit for light duties. He suffered a recurrence of haematuria later the same year and was found permanently unfit for service in April, leaving service with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. He died suddenly at Hamburg in Germany in August 1934 aged 54.