# Douglas Freeman > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Douglas_Freeman > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Douglas_Freeman.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Freeman > Source revision: 1330152741 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|English cricketer}} {{about|the English cricketer|the New Zealand Test cricketer|Doug Freeman|the American historian|Douglas Southall Freeman}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Use British English|date=February 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Douglas Freeman | image = | fullname = Douglas Percy Freeman | nickname = | birth_date = 21 July 1916 | birth_place = [Sherborne](/source/Sherborne), [Dorset](/source/Dorset) | death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|4|3|1916|7|21|df=yes}} | death_place = [Westbury on Trym](/source/Westbury_on_Trym), [Bristol](/source/Bristol) | heightft = | heightinch = | batting = Left-handed | bowling = | role = | family = [Edward Freeman](/source/Edward_Freeman_(cricketer%2C_born_1880)) (father)
[Edward Freeman](/source/Edward_Freeman_(cricketer%2C_born_1860)) (grandfather)
[Thomas Russell](/source/Thomas_Russell_(cricketer)) (great-uncle)
[Tich Freeman](/source/Tich_Freeman) (uncle) | club1 = [Dorset](/source/Dorset_County_Cricket_Club) | year1 = 1934–1948 | club2 = [Kent](/source/Kent_County_Cricket_Club) | year2 = 1937 | hidedeliveries = true | columns = 1 | column1 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket) | matches1 = 1 | runs1 = 10 | bat avg1 = 5.00 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 6 | catches/stumpings1 = 0/– | date = 30 May | year = 2011 | source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/13200.html CricInfo }} '''Douglas Percy Freeman''' {{post-nominals|MBE}} (21 July 1916 – 3 April 2013) was an English [cricket](/source/cricket)er. Freeman was a left-handed [batsman](/source/batsman_(cricket)) who played for [Dorset County Cricket Club](/source/Dorset_County_Cricket_Club) and [Kent County Cricket Club](/source/Kent_County_Cricket_Club).[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/13200.html Douglas Freeman], [CricInfo](/source/CricInfo). Retrieved 2017-07-01. He was born at [Sherborne](/source/Sherborne) in [Dorset](/source/Dorset) in 1916. Freeman made his debut for Dorset in the 1934 [Minor Counties Championship](/source/Minor_Counties_Championship) against [Cornwall](/source/Cornwall_County_Cricket_Club). He played Minor counties cricket for Dorset from 1934 to 1948, making 32 Minor Counties Championship appearances for the county with a highest score of 89 runs, made in 1935 against [Devon](/source/Devon_County_Cricket_Club).[http://www.thepca.co.uk/obituaries.html#Douglas Douglas Freeman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622192424/http://www.thepca.co.uk/obituaries.html#Douglas |date=22 June 2017 }}, Obituaries, [Professional Cricketers' Association](/source/Professional_Cricketers'_Association). Retrieved 2017-07-01.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29540/29540.html Douglas Freeman], CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-07-01. After playing for Kent Second XI in 1936, Freeman made eight appearances for the county Second XI in the 1937 Minor Counties Championship and played in one [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket) match against [Somerset](/source/Somerset_County_Cricket_Club) in the [1937 County Championship](/source/1937_County_Championship). He made a total of ten runs in the match in a "crushing defeat" for the county. He played for Somerset Second XI in 1939 before returning to play for Dorset after the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War).Carlaw, pp. 83–84. (Retrieved 2020-07-01.) Freeman's father, [Edward](/source/Edward_Freeman_(cricketer%2C_born_1880)), his grandfather, also called [Edward](/source/Edward_Freeman_(cricketer%2C_born_1860)), and his great-uncle [Thomas Russell](/source/Thomas_Russell_(cricketer)), all played first-class cricket and his brother, another Edward, also played for Dorset. His uncle was [Tich Freeman](/source/Tich_Freeman) who played for Kent between 1914 and 1936 and is the county's leading wicket-taker.[http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/826611.html Freeman, Douglas Percy], Wisden Obituaries – 2013, ''[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack](/source/Wisden_Cricketers'_Almanack)'', 2014. Retrieved 2017-07-01. When Freeman died at the age of 96 in 2013 at [Westbury on Trym](/source/Westbury_on_Trym) in [Bristol](/source/Bristol) he was Kent's oldest surviving player and the last surviving player who had played for the county before World War II.[http://www.kentcricket.co.uk/news/kent-cricket-saddened-by-the-death-of-doug-freeman-kents-oldest-cricketer/ Kent Cricket saddened by the death of Doug Freeman – Kent’s Oldest Cricketer], [Kent County Cricket Club](/source/Kent_County_Cricket_Club), 2013-04-09. Retrieved 2017-07-01.[https://www.thepca.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/BTB-issue-13.pdf Douglas Freeman], ''Boundaries'', issue 10, p.11. [The Professional Cricketers' Association](/source/The_Professional_Cricketers'_Association), 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2018. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Bibliography== * {{cite book |last=Carlaw |first=Derek |title=Kent County Cricketers, A to Z: Part Two (1919–1939) |publisher=[ACS](/source/Association_of_Cricket_Statisticians_and_Historians) |location=Cardiff |year=2020 |url=https://archive.acscricket.com/books/Kent_Cricketers_A_to_Z_Part_Two.pdf}} ==External links== * {{cricinfo|id=13200}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Freeman, Douglas}} Category:1916 births Category:2013 deaths Category:People from Sherborne Category:Cricketers from Dorset Category:English cricketers Category:Dorset cricketers Category:Kent cricketers Category:20th-century English sportsmen Category:Members of the Order of the British Empire --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Douglas Freeman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Freeman) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Freeman?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.