Teddy Wynyard

Teddy Wynyard

Wynyard in about 1900
Personal information
Full name	Edward George Wynyard
Born	1 April 1861 Saharanpur, North-Western Provinces, British India
Died	30 October 1936(1936-10-30) (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)
International information
National side	England (1896–1906)
Test debut (cap 106)	10 August 1896 v Australia
Last Test	6 March 1906 v South Africa
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1878–1908	Hampshire
1887–1912	Marylebone Cricket Club
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class Matches 3 154 Runs scored 72 8,318 Batting average 12.00 33.00 100s/50s –/– 13/42 Top score 30 268 Balls bowled 24 3,790 Wickets 0 66 Bowling average – 32.27 5 wickets in innings – 1 10 wickets in match – – Best bowling – 6/63 Catches/stumpings –/– 163/5
Source: Teddy Wynyard at ESPNcricinfo 6 November 2022 Association football career Position(s) Centre-forward Senior career* Years Team Apps (Gls) 1877 Winchester ? (?) 1880–1881 Old Carthusians ? (?) 1893 Corinthians 2 (5) *Club domestic league appearances and goals

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 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 he was engaged as both captain and president of Hampshire. Wynyard would later 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 Welch 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 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.