| Country: | England |
| Fullname: | Frederick Collier Christy |
| Birth Date: | 8 September 1822 |
| Birth Place: | Aperfield, Kent, England |
| Death Place: | South Yarra, Victoria, Australia |
| Family: | Alfred Christy (brother) |
| Batting: | Unknown |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 3 |
| Runs1: | 5 |
| Bat Avg1: | 0.83 |
| 100S/50S1: | –/– |
| Top Score1: | 5 |
| Deliveries1: | 0 |
| Wickets1: | – |
| Bowl Avg1: | – |
| Fivefor1: | – |
| Tenfor1: | – |
| Best Bowling1: | – |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | -/- |
| Date: | 23 December |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ireland/content/player/4746.html Cricinfo |
Frederick Collier Christy (9 September 1822 - 17 September 1909) was an English first-class cricketer and inventor.
The son of John Christy and his wife Sarah De Horne, Christy was born at Aperfield in Kent in September 1822.[1] He was employed by J. and G. Rennie for a time in 1845.[1] The following year he made his debut in first-class cricket for the Surrey Club against Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's.[2] He made a further first-class appearance for the Surrey Club in 1848 in a repeat of the 1846 match.[2] By 1858 he had emigrated to Victoria, where he worked for the Victorian Railways as a chief mechanical engineer.[1] He married Caroline Smith Wells at Williamstown in 1861.[1] H. H. Stephenson toured Australia with a team the following year. A first-class match was arranged between a Surrey XI and The Rest of the World at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, with Christy playing for the Surrey XI.[2] In 1869, he sent a patent request to the Patent Office in London for his invention of "improvements in the construction of axle-boxes for railway carriages and other vehicles." He moved to Japan in April 1871 to work for the Japanese Government Railways as a locomotive superintendent,[1] in what was its first year of operation. He worked in Japan for five years, returning to Australia in 1876.[1] He died at South Yarra in September 1909.[1]