Edward Stephenson (cricketer)
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| Full name | Edward Keppel Stephenson | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 March 1891 Kensington, London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 21 April 1969 (aged 78) Blyth, Suffolk, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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| 1914 | Norfolk | ||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 14 July 2019 | |||||||||||||||
Edward Keppel Stephenson (22 March 1891 – 21 April 1969) was an English first-class cricketer, British Army officer and educator.
The son of Major Keppel Stephenson and his wife, Helena Mary Greathed, he was born at Kensington in March 1891.[1] He was educated at Eton College,[2] before going up to Merton College, Oxford.[3] He played minor counties cricket for Norfolk in 1914, making a single appearance in the Minor Counties Championship.[4]
He served during the First World War with the Coldstream Guards, enlisting as a second lieutenant in August 1914,[5] with confirmation in the rank in February 1915.[6] He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in August 1915.[7] He was promoted to the rank of captain in January 1917,[8] before being seconded to British India in March 1917, where he served as aide-de-camp to the Governor of Bengal.[9] While in British India, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for a Bengal Governor's XI against a Maharaja of Cooch-Behar's XI at Calcutta in November 1917.[10] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed in the Governor's XI first-innings without scoring by Jack Newman, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for the same score by Frank Tarrant.[11]
Following the conclusion of the war, he became a schoolteacher at Radley College,[3] where he was active in the Radley Contingent of the Officers' Training Corps.[12] He resigned his commission in 1921, retaining the rank of captain.[13] He was a partner in the Farnborough School at Hampshire, which was dissolved in 1928.[14] He died in April 1969 at Blyth, Suffolk.