Sir Frederick Currie, 2nd Baronet

Sir Frederick Currie, Bt

Cricket information
Batting style	Right hand batsmen
International information
National side	English
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 6 Runs scored 60 Batting average 5.45 100s/50s Top score 13 Balls bowled Wickets Bowling average 5 wickets in innings 10 wickets in match Best bowling Catches/stumpings 7/0
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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.^[3] He became an Anglican clergyman,^[4] holding incumbencies at Exton^[5] and St Andrew’s Wells Street, W.1^[6]

Family

He married Eliza Reeve Rackham on 18 September 1849.^[7] 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.^[8] There were no children by the second marriage.

On his death the title passed to his son, Frederick Reeve Currie.^[9] and, after Frederick Reeve's death, to his next son Walter Louis Rackham Currie.

References

1. The Times, Thursday, 16 September 1875; p. 5; Issue 28422; col E Obituary- The Late Sir Frederick Currie
2. The Larkins of Blackheath
3. "Currie, Frederick Larkins (CRY842FL)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
4. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
5. The Times, Friday, 24 April 1885; p. 4; Issue 31429; col B Ecclesiastical appointments
6. The Times, Saturday, 14 November 1891; p. 1; Issue 33482; col A Marriages.
7. The Peerage, page 33114
8. The Peerage, page 33112
9. Baronetage updates