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Captain '''Edward Boyd Fawcett''' (11 October 1839 – 26 September 1884) was a British army officer and English cricketer active from 1859 to 1863. He was the father of explorer [[Percy Fawcett]].

Edward was born in India in [[Poona]], [[British India]] to Henry Fawcett and Mary Sophia Fawcett.<ref>''India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947''</ref> He was educated at [[Brighton College]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{acad |id=FWCT857EB |name=Fawcett, Edward Boyd}}</ref>

Fawcett played for the [[Sussex County Cricket Club]]. He appeared in 21 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who [[bowling (cricket)|bowled]] right-arm [[fast bowling|fast medium]] with a [[roundarm bowling|roundarm]] action. He scored 326 [[run (cricket)|runs]] with a highest score of 53 and took 57 [[wicket]]s with a best performance of six for 56.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29358/29358.html Edward Fawcett at CricketArchive]</ref>
Fawcett enjoyed a privileged upbringing. He became friends with the Prince of Wales, Albert Edward, the future [[Edward VII]], and was appointed the prince's royal [[equerry]]. In 1865, he married Myra Elizabeth MacDougall, only daughter of Colonel Andrew MacDougall, of Halebank, [[Torquay]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ...|date=1865|publisher=Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868]|page=109|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TfEIAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA109|accessdate=11 July 2017|language=en}}</ref> He settled the family in Devon, where they had two sons, [[Edward Douglas Fawcett|Edward Douglas]] in 1866 and [[Percy Fawcett|Percy Harrison]] in 1867, followed by three daughters.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mason|first1=Fergus|title=The Road to El Dorado: Percy Fawcett and the Lost World of Z|date=2014|publisher=BookCaps Study Guides|isbn=9781629173825|pages=6–7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KJ9uBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT6|accessdate=11 July 2017|language=en}}</ref>

Fawcett earned a reputation for heavy drinking, gambling and philandering. He was born into money and married into it, and he squandered away both family fortunes. Already ill from alcoholism, he died of [[tuberculosis]] at age 44 in [[Teignmouth]], Devon.<ref name="dt0317">{{cite news|title=The Lost City of Z: what happened to Percy Fawcett?|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/the-lost-city-of-z-what-happened-to-percy-fawcett/|accessdate=11 July 2017|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=10 March 2017}}</ref> His widow died in London on 14 October 1902.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Deaths|date=15 October 1902 |page=1 |issue=36899| }}</ref>

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