Frederick Maitland Freake Bt (1876 - 1950)

Born 7 Mar 1876 in Botley, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom

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Died 22 Dec 1950 at age 74 in Todenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

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Frederick represented a mixed team at the Olympic Games

Sir Frederick Maitland Freake, 3rd baronet, was a British Army officer and polo player. He competed at the 1900 Olympics in Paris for the BLO Polo Club Rugby polo team which came second place. He competed again, this time for Great Britain, at the London Olympics of 1908, again receiving a silver medal.

He was born on 7 March 1876 in Botley, Hampshire. He was the second and only surviving son of Sir Thomas G Freake, 2nd baronet, and Frederica, the daughter of Col Frederick T Maitland, of Holywyck, Kent.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge.^[1]

In 1920 he succeeded his father as 3rd Baronet Freake of Cromwell House and Fulwell Park, established 1882 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. He was thereafter addressed as Sir Frederick Freake.

He died in 1950, aged 74.^[6] A death notice in the Times recorded:

FREAKE.—On Dec, 22. 1950, at Todenham, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos, Frederick Maitland Freake, Baronet, aged 74.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "Freake, Frederick [Charles] Maitland (FRK894FM)". Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge (accessed 19 Jun 2020)
2. ↑ England & Wales General Register Office, GRO Online Index - Birth (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content : accessed 19 Jun 2020), database entry for FREKE, FREDERICK MAITLAND. Mother's maiden name: MAITLAND. GRO Reference: 1876 J Quarter in DROXFORD Volume 02C Page 121.
3. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W1NH-LW2 : 4 May 2019), Frederick Freake in household of Thos Freake, Sir, Siddington, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 12, Gloucestershire county, subdistrict, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
4. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS8Q-997 : 21 May 2019), Frederick M Freake, Halford, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Halford subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
5. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW8M-X42 : 7 July 2019), Frederick Maitland Freaks, Halford, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
6. ↑ England & Wales General Register Office, GRO Online Index - Death (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content : accessed 19 Jun 2020), database entry for FREAKE, FREDERICK MAITLAND. Age: 74. GRO Reference: 1950 D Quarter in NORTH COTSWOLD Volume 07B Page 541.
7. ↑ "Deaths." Times, 23 Dec 1950, page 1. The Times Digital Archive (subscription service, accessed 19 Jun 2020)

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