Famous Cricketers No 68 - Fred Tate

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Derek Carlaw is a South East Londoner born in New Cross. Most of his working life was spent in the pump industry, mainly concerned with sales and marketing. Since 1984 he has earned his living as a freelance technical journalist and marketing consultant specialising in fluids handling, oil and chemical pollution, sewage and waste treatment etc. He writes frequently in trade/technical magazines, often on behalf of clients as a ghost writer. His interest in cricket began in the truncated 1939 season and after watching all three days of the famous England v Dominions game at Lord’s in 1945 he became hooked for life. He now spends 30 plus days a year watching first-class cricket, mainly in Kent but with frequent, much enjoyed, forays to other grounds. His attitude to one-day cricket is best described as benevolent indifference. A compulsive book collector, cricket history is one of his main interests, primarily the period 1870-1939. He is a regular contributor to the Kent CCC Annual and has also written for the Journal of the Cricket Society. For some fifteen years he played club cricket of the coarse variety for a wandering club he helped to found. As well as the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians, he is a member of Kent CCC, the Cricket Society and the Royal Over-Seas League. He is married with two grown up daughters and lives in Canterbury.