For other people with this name see Fred Webster (disambiguation)

Frederick Webster (19 January 1885 — 23 March 1938) was an English

England

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 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 in 1906.

Webster was born in Eccleshall

Eccleshall

Eccleshall is a town in Staffordshire, England. It is located seven miles north west of Stafford, and six miles west of Stone. Eccleshall is twinned with Sancerre in France.-History:...

. He made one appearance for Derbyshire, during the 1906 season, against Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

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. Batting from the tailend, Webster scored 1 in the first innings and 10 in the second - and took one wicket with the ball - in a game which Derbyshire lost by an innings margin.

External links

• Frederick Webster at Cricket Archive