Sir Frederick Currie, 2nd Baronet explained

Frederick Currie
Batting:Right handed
Columns:1
Column1:First-class
Matches1:6
Runs1:60
Bat Avg1:5.45
100S/50S1:0/0
Top Score1:13
Hidedeliveries:true
Catches/Stumpings1:7/0
Source:http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/11708.html CricInfo
Date:19 August
Year:2019

The Reverend Sir Frederick Larkins Currie, 2nd Baronet (18 April 1823 in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh – 13 November 1900) was an English baronet, the eldest child of Sir Frederick Currie, 1st Baronet[1] and Susannah née Larkins.[2]

He was educated at Rugby and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he played first-class cricket for the university. He became an Anglican clergyman,[3] holding incumbencies at Exton[4] and St Andrew's Wells Street, W.1[5]

Family

He married Eliza Reeve Rackham on 18 September 1849.[6] They had seven children: Eliza Kate, Susannah Louisa, Frederick Reeve, Walter Louis Rackham, Percy George Colin, Arthur Edward and Cecil Edmund, who played cricket for Cambridge University and Hampshire.After his first wife's death, he married Mary Helen Corrie on 24 April 1866.[7] There were no children by the second marriage.

On his death the title passed to his son, Frederick Reeve Currie. and, after Frederick Reeve's death, to his next son Walter Louis Rackham Currie.

Notes and References

  1. [The Times]
  2. http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/blackheath/thebc25.htm The Larkins of Blackheath
  3. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
  4. [The Times]
  5. [The Times]
  6. http://thepeerage.com/p33114.htm#i331136 The Peerage, page 33114
  7. http://thepeerage.com/p33112.htm#i331116 The Peerage, page 33112