Answer the following question: Facts: - source: http://cricketarchive.com/archive/players/13/13229/13229.html cricketarchive - role: all-rounder - fivefor: 133 - country: australia - bowling: left-arm slow-medium - testsumpired: 2 - birth date: 11 december 1880 - umpire: true - deliveries: 63,531 - columns: 1 - s/s: 33/93 - death date: 29 january 1951 - fcumpired: 8 - year: 1899 1915 -- 1936 1927 -- 1933 2015 -- 1925 1903 -- 1914 1904 -- 1914 - name: frank tarrant - death place: upper hawthorn , victoria , australia - birth place: fitzroy , colony of victoria - date: 1880 12 11 yes - umptestdebutyr: 1933 - column: fc - catches/stumpings: 303 / -- - fullname: francis alfred tarrant - tenfor: 38 - matches: 329 - umpfclastyr: 1934 - batting: right-handed - runs: 17,952 - wickets: 1,512 - family: wa -rrb- tarrant -lrb- uncle -rrb- lbn tarrant -lrb- son - umptestlastyr: 1934 - umpfcdebutyr: 1932 - club: victoria mcc middlesex europeans patiala Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of frank tarrant .
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francis alfred '' frank '' tarrant -lrb- 11 december 1880 -- 29 january 1951 -rrb- was an australian cricketer whose career spanned from 1899 to 1936 , and included 329 matches .from melbourne , tarrant began his career with victoria in australia 's sheffield shield , but found fame playing in england , with a long career as an all-rounder for middlesex in the county championship .after the first world war , he was mostly active in india , appearing for the europeans in the bombay quadrangular tournament .tarrant played his final first-class match at the age of 56 , during the 1936 -- 37 season .he had also umpired in two england -- india test matches -lrb- and several first-class games -rrb- several seasons earlier .considered one of the best players never to play at test level , tarrant scored almost 18,000 runs and over 1,500 wickets during his long career , and completed '' the double '' of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in a season on eight separate occasions .