Frederick Barkham

Frederick Barkham (26 October 1905 – 8 December 1992) was an English first-class cricketer and cricket coach.

Barkham was born at Scarborough in October 1905. He was a professional cricketer who initially played his club cricket in England for Scarborough and South Kirkby Colliery.^[1] He proceeded to play club cricket in Scotland for Stirling County in the first half of the 1930s, before leaving the club in 1935 to take up a coaching and groundsman position at Dollar Academy in Clackmannanshire.^[2] He played club cricket for Clackmannanshire in the final years of the^[3] In 1938, he was put forward by Clackmannanshire to trial for the Scottish cricket team, but was unsuccessful.^[4] By 1947, he had moved onto to play for St Boswells in Roxburghshire.^[5] After showing good form for St Boswells,^[6] he was selected to play for Scotland in two first-class matches, against Warwickshire at Edgbaston on Scotland's 1948 tour of England, and against Yorkshire at Hull on their 1949 tour of England.^[7] He was unable to repeat his club form in these matches, scoring just 7 runs.^[8] He later coached Gala in 1955.^[9] In addition to playing at first-class level, Barkham also stood as an umpire in June 1963, when Scotland played the touring Pakistan Eaglets.^[10] Barkham died at Melrose in December 1992.