Teddy Wynyard
Wynyard in the late 1890s
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Edward George Wynyard DSO OBE (1 April 1861–30 October 1936) was a British Army officer and an English cricketer who played in 3 Tests from 1896 to 1906.
He captained Hampshire County Cricket Club between 1896 and 1899.
Wynyard was also a successful amateur football player. 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.
Wynyard was born 1 April 1861, at Saharanpur, India, son of a magistrate in the Bengal Civil Service, and successively educated in England at Woodcote House School, Windlesham, at Charterhouse School from 1874 to 1877, and St Edward's School, Oxford, leaving in 1879.
Wynyard was commissioned a Lieutenant in the 1st Regiment, Warwick Militia in 1881, transferring to regular service with the King's Liverpool Regiment in 1883. With the latter he was stationed in India and saw active service in the Burma Expedition 1885–87, winning the Distinguished Service Order in the latter year and being twice mentioned in despatches. Promoted Captain, he transferred again, to the Welch Regiment, in 1890. He was Adjutant of the Oxford University Volunteers in 1899–1900, then instructor at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst until he retired in 1903.
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