Career
A slow bowling gentleman cricketer born in Mayfair, London, he made his debut match at Lord"s on 24 June 1839 for Oxford University against the Master Control Console, scoring one and nine as his team took a narrow two-wicket victory. Nethercote would play eighteen more first-class matches for the University, the Master Control Console, and various invitational elevens including Slow Bowlers XI, North of England and Gentlemen of England. His cricketing career returned 190 runs at a batting average of 6.55, largely batting with unknown handedness in the lower order.
He made a best of 32.
He also took eight wickets including one five-wicket haul. He became Northamptonshire"s High Sheriff for 1872, and also co-authored The Pytchley Hunt - a history of the Northamptonshire Pytchley Hunt organisation - with a Charles Edmonds in 1888.