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| Full name | Edward George Wynyard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 April 1861 Saharanpur, North-Western Provinces, British India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 30 October 1936 (aged 75) Knotty Green, Buckinghamshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1[1] in (1.85 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Unknown-arm slow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Occasional wicket-keeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Frank Wright (cousin) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 106) | 10 August 1896 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 6 March 1906 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1878–1908 | Hampshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1887–1912 | Marylebone Cricket Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Edward George Wynyard DSO OBE (1 April 1861 – 30 October 1936) was an English sportsman and a career officer in the British Army. He was primarily known as a first-class cricketer who played at the domestic level predominantly for Hampshire and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), in addition to playing Test cricket for England on three occasions. He made over 150 appearances in first-class cricket between 1878 and 1912, as a batsman whom Wisden described as "a splendid forcing batsman". He scored over 8,300 runs and made thirteen centuries. He was an important figure in Hampshire's return to first-class status in 1894, and shortly after their re-elevation he was engaged as both their captain and president. Wynyard's administrative duties would later see him serve on the committee of the MCC.
Wynyard was also a successful amateur football centre-forward. In 1881, he was a member of the Old Carthusians team that won the FA Cup Final, in which he scored the opening goal in a 3–0 victory over Old Etonians at The Oval. He also played for both Winchester and the Corinthians. He was adept at winter sports, partaking as a tobogganist in the International Championship at Davos in Switzerland, which he won in 1894, 1895 and 1899. He also played hockey for Hampshire and was a keen golfer, forming his own club, "The Jokers".
As a career soldier, Wynyard was commissioned into the Warwick Militia in September 1879 and later served with the King's Liverpool Regiment from May 1883. He served in the Burma Expedition of 1885–87, during the course of which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He then joined the Welsh Regiment in 1890, and in the lead-up to the Second Boer War he held a number of staff appointments and instructed at the Royal Military College. He retired from military service in 1903, but later returned to active service in the First World War, where he initially served with the Middlesex Regiment, before being seconded to the Labour Corps, where he was commandant of Thornhill Labour Camp in Thornhill, Southampton. For his role in the war, he was made an OBE. Wynyard was the recipient of the medal of the Royal Humane Society in 1894, for bravery at "great personal risk" when he rescued a Swiss peasant who had fallen under the ice on a lake.
- ^ Warsop 2004a, p. 5.