Frederick Leney
Frederick Barcham Leney (29 November 1876 – 25 July 1921) was an English brewery executive and amateur cricketer who played one first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1905.[1]
Leney was born at Wateringbury near Maidstone in Kent in 1876 and was educated at Bradfield College where he was in the school cricket and association football teams.[2][3] He played for Kent's Second XI between 1903 and 1906 and played club cricket for Wateringbury Cricket Club, which he captained,[3] The Mote and for MCC.[4] He made his only Kent First XI appearance in 1905 against Oxford University.[4]
Leney's father Augustus had established the Phoenix Brewery at Wateringbury in 1843 and Frederick, the eldest son, went into the family business after leaving school, becoming a Director by 1911.[3][5] At the outbreak of World War I he joined the British Red Cross as a Red Cross Searcher. He served with the organisation in France and Egypt until December 1916 when he was discharged and returned to run the brewery, his father having died in a hunting accident the previous year.[3][6]
Leney died suddenly at the Railway Hotel in Galway in July 1921 aged 44.[3][7][8] His uncle, Herbert, played four first-class matches for Kent.[9] The family business, which had been renamed Frederick Leney & Sons in 1896, was taken over by Whitbread in 1927 and then by Fremlin's Brewery in the 1960s.[10] It operated until 1981, although the site has since been used as a distribution depot for Whitbread.[11][12]
References[edit]
- ^ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 331–332. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
- ^ The Bradfield College Register, fifteenth edition, 1909, p.152. Oxford: Holywell Press. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-10-24.)
- ^ a b c d e Lewis P (2014) For Kent and Country, pp.241–243. Brighton: Reveille Press. ISBN 978-1-908336-63-7
- ^ a b Frederick Leney, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
- ^ Leney Family Archived 23 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Wateringbury Historical Society. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
- ^ Lewis op. cit., p.49.
- ^ Deaths, The Times, 1921-07-28, p.1.
- ^ Frederick Leney, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
- ^ Herbert Leney, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
- ^ Why he's here for the beer trays..., Kent Messenger, 2010-07-16. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
- ^ Hales I (2013) Old Maidstone's Public Houses from Old Photographs, p.31. Stroud: Amberley. ISBN 978-1-445-62982-7
- ^ Richmond L, Turton A (1990) The Brewing Industry: A Guide to Historical Records, pp.209–210. Manchester: Manchester University Press. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-10-24.)