# Frederick Poland
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'''Frederick William Poland''' (10 October 1858 – ?1940) was an English [clergyman](/source/clergyman) and a [cricketer](/source/cricketer) who played in one [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket) match for [Cambridge University](/source/Cambridge_University_Cricket_Club) in 1881.[{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32100/32100.html | title = Frederick Poland | publisher = CricketArchive | accessdate = 4 January 2015}}] He was born at [Shepherd's Bush](/source/Shepherd's_Bush), London. His death is less certain; in one source, he was living in 1940, the year of his apparent death, at [Town of Mount Royal](/source/Mount_Royal%2C_Quebec), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, though the exact date and circumstances of death are not known.[{{cite web | url = https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri05univuoft#page/144/mode/2up | title = Alumni Cantabrigienses: Frederick Poland | author = J. Venn and J. A. Venn | volume = Part 5 |publisher=Cambridge University Press | via = Internet Archive| page = 145 | accessdate = 4 January 2015}}] In the record of his parish at Mount Royal, however, his death is given as 1937, again with no detail (and the church has his birth-year wrong, claiming he was born in 1859).[{{cite web | url = http://stpeterstmr.org/files/8513/8141/9228/History_of_St_Peters.pdf | title = St Peter's Church, Town of Mount Royal: History | publisher = St Peter's Church | accessdate = 4 January 2015 | archive-date = 4 March 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041245/http://stpeterstmr.org/files/8513/8141/9228/History_of_St_Peters.pdf | url-status = dead }}]
The fourth son of the Rev. Frederick Poland, a [Church of England](/source/Church_of_England) clergyman who was vicar of [Paignton](/source/Paignton), [Devon](/source/Devon) from 1861 to 1891, Poland was educated at a private school called Newton College in Devon and at [Trinity College, Cambridge](/source/Trinity_College%2C_Cambridge).[{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/247/247381.html | title = Scorecard: Cambridge University v Cambridge University Next XVI | date = 12 May 1881 | publisher = CricketArchive | accessdate = 4 January 2015}}] A right-handed batsman and a [wicketkeeper](/source/wicketkeeper), he was picked for only one first-class game, the match against the "Gentlemen of England" [amateur](/source/amateur_status_in_first-class_cricket) team, and made an unbeaten four in his only innings; he also made two catches and three stumpings as wicketkeeper.[{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/2/2448.html | title = Scorecard: Cambridge University v Gentlemen of England | date = 30 May 1881 | publisher = CricketArchive | accessdate = 4 January 2015}}] He was not picked again in first-class cricket, but he continued to play in less important games, including matches for [Devon](/source/Devon_County_Cricket_Club) and [Hertfordshire](/source/Hertfordshire_County_Cricket_Club), and some of his Hertfordshire games from the mid-1890s were in the [Minor Counties](/source/Minor_Counties) competition.