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{{short description|English cricketer, British Army officer, and educator}}
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| country = England
| full_name = Edward Keppel Stephenson
| birth_date = 22 March 1891
| birth_place = [[Kensington]], [[London]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1969|4|21|1891|3|22}}
| death_place = [[Blyth, Suffolk|Blyth]], [[Suffolk]], England
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| batting = Unknown
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| club1 = [[Norfolk County Cricket Club|Norfolk]]
| year1 = 1914
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 0
| bat avg1 = 0.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 0
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–
| date = 14 July
| year = 2019
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/34453.html ESPNcricinfo
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'''Edward Keppel Stephenson''' (22 March 1891 – 21 April 1969) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er, [[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.<ref name="PEER">{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p55618.htm |title=Edward Keppel Stephenson |publisher=www.thepeerage.com |access-date=2019-07-15}}</ref> He was educated at [[Eton College]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228449.html |title=Wisden - Obituaries in 1969 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=2019-07-15}}</ref> before going up to [[Merton College, Oxford]].<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=Register, 1847-1923 |date=1923 |publisher=Radleian Society at the University Press |pages=29 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P1U4AAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> He played [[Minor Counties of English and Welsh cricket|minor counties cricket]] for [[Norfolk County Cricket Club|Norfolk]] in 1914, making a single appearance in the [[Minor Counties Championship]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14632/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html |title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Edward Stephenson |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2019-07-15 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

He served during the [[First World War]] with the [[Coldstream Guards]], enlisting as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom & other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] in August 1914,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28894|date=8 September 1914|page=7100}}</ref> with confirmation in the rank in February 1915.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29063|date=9 February 1915|page=1333}}</ref> He was promoted to the rank of [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in August 1915.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29393|date=7 December 1915|page=12200}}</ref> He was promoted to the rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in January 1917,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30295|date=18 September 1917|page=9742|supp=y}}</ref> before being seconded to [[British India]] in March 1917, where he served as ''[[aide-de-camp]]'' to the [[Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland|Governor of Bengal]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30156|date=29 June 1917|page=6437}}</ref> 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 [[Eden Gardens|Calcutta]] in November 1917.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14632/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Edward Stephenson |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2019-07-15 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed in the Governor's XI first-innings [[duck (cricket)|without scoring]] by [[Jack Newman (English cricketer)|Jack Newman]], while in their second-innings he was dismissed for the same score by [[Frank Tarrant]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9494.html |title=Bengal Governor's XI v Maharaja of Cooch-Behar's XI, 1917/18 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2019-07-15 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Following the conclusion of the war, he became a schoolteacher at [[Radley College]],<ref name="BOOK"/> where he was active in the Radley Contingent of the [[Officers' Training Corps]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31735|date=13 January 1920|page=689|supp=y}}</ref> He resigned his commission in 1921, retaining the rank of captain.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32269|date=22 March 1921|page=2396|supp=y}}</ref> He was a partner in the [[Farnborough School (1928)|Farnborough School]] at [[Hampshire]], which was dissolved in 1928.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33421|date=14 September 1928|page=6056|supp=y}}</ref> He died in April 1969 at [[Blyth, Suffolk]].

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=34453}}

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