Fred Gibson (cricketer), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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English cricketer
Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1912
Date of Death: 28-Jun-2013
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Fred Gibson (cricketer)
- Alfred Leonard 'Fred' Gibson (13 February 1912 – 28 June 2013) was a Jamaican-born English cricketer.
- Gibson was a right-handed batsman.
- On 13 February 2012, he became the 15th former first-class player to reach 100 years of age, and the 5th county cricketer to do so.Born at Devon, Jamaica, where he was taught cricket by the manager of a banana plantation and once played in a match featuring George Headley.
- Gibson moved to England in 1944, accompanied by a friend, where he joined the Royal Air Force and saw service in the later stages of World War II while stationed near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire.
- Following the war, Leicestershire County Cricket Club secretary Cecil Wood was given the task of building a team for the resumption of first-class cricket, with Gibson impressing Wood in friendly one-day matches against Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire in 1945.
- He was offered the chance to play for Leicestershire in 1946, making two first-class appearances against Yorkshire in the County Championship at Headingley and Oxford University at the University Parks.
- He scored a total of 17 runs in his two matches, at an average of 5.66, with a high score of 11.
- He suffered arm and head injuries in a car accident midway through the 1946 season and was not reengaged by the county.He later married an English woman and worked as a technician for Rolls-Royce.
- Gibson is also noted as being one of the first black persons to be elected as a councillor in England when he was elected to represent Mountsorrel on the local council.
- Gibson died at a nursing home at Manton, Rutland on 28 June 2013.
- At the time of his death he was the second-oldest surviving county cricketer, behind Cyril Perkins.
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