Frederick Nathaniel Micklethwait (18 April 1817 – 18 October 1878) was an English lawyer and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and the Marylebone Cricket Club.^[1] He was born at Beeston, Nottinghamshire and died at Taverham Hall, Norwich, Norfolk.

Micklethwait was educated at Eton College and Jesus College, Cambridge.^[2] He played cricket at Eton as a middle-order batsman and in 1836 he appeared in two matches for Cambridge University that have subsequently been considered as first-class; the second of them was the 1836 University Match against Oxford University, in which he scored 6 and 0.^[3] Between 1839 and 1848 he played in four further first-class matches for the MCC; in the last of these, a game against Cambridge University that was finished in a single day, he scored 20 out of an MCC total of 54, and this was his highest first-class score.^[4] In minor matches he appeared frequently through to the 1860s for I Zingari, the nomadic amateur side.^[1] He retained links to cricket, being on the committee of the MCC.^[2]

Micklethwait's younger brother, Sotherton, also played first-class cricket for Cambridge University.

Micklethwait graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1839 and was called to the bar in 1842.^[2] He specialised in property law and was an "equity draftsman and conveyancer".^[2] He left "under £70,000" when he died in 1878.^[5]

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