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{{short description|English cricketer}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Teddy Wynyard
| image = Teddy Wynyard c1900.jpg
| caption = Wynyard in about 1900
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| columns = 2
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Test]]
| matches1 = 3
| runs1 = 72
| bat avg1 = 12.00
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 30
| deliveries1 = 24
| wickets1 = –
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1= 0/–
| column2 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches2 = 154
| runs2 = 8,318
| bat avg2 = 33.00
| 100s/50s2 = 13/42
| top score2 = 268
| deliveries2 = 3,790
| wickets2 = 66
| bowl avg2 = 32.27
| fivefor2 = 1
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 6/63
| catches/stumpings2= 163/5
| international = true
| country = England
| testdebutagainst = Australia
| testdebutdate = 10 August
| testdebutyear = 1896
| lasttestdate = 6 March
| lasttestagainst = South Africa
| lasttestyear = 1906
| source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22548.html CricInfo
| date = 6 November
| year = 2022
}}

'''Edward George Wynyard''' {{post-nominals|DSO|OBE}} (1 April 1861 – 30 October 1936) was a [[British Army]] officer<ref name="Warsop">{{cite book |last=Warsop |first=Keith |title=The Early FA Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs |publisher=Tony Brown, Soccer Data |year=2004 |pages=139–140 |isbn=1-899468-78-1}}</ref> and an English [[cricket]]er who played in three [[Test cricket|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 F. C.|Old Carthusians]] team that won the [[FA Cup Final]], in which he scored the opening goal in a 3–0 victory over [[Old Etonians F. C.|Old Etonians]].

==Early life==
Wynyard was born 1 April 1861, at [[Saharanpur]] in [[British India]], the son of a magistrate in the [[Bengal Civil Service]]. He was educated in England at Woodcote House School, [[Windlesham]], at [[Charterhouse School]] from 1874 to 1877, and [[St Edward's School, Oxford]], leaving in 1879.<ref name="Warsop"/>

==Military career==
Wynyard was commissioned a [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in the 1st Regiment, Warwick Militia in 1881, transferring to regular service with the [[King's Liverpool Regiment]] in May 1883. With the latter he was stationed in [[British Raj|India]] and saw active service in the [[Burma Expedition]] 1885–87, winning the [[Distinguished Service Order]] (DSO) in the latter year and being twice [[mentioned in despatches]]. Promoted [[Captain (BARM)|captain]] on 19 March 1890, he transferred again the same year, to the [[Welch Regiment]]. He was Adjutant of the Oxford University Volunteers until late 1899,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27169 |page=1357| date=27 February 1900}}</ref> then instructor at the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]] from 26 December 1899 until August 1902, when he returned to his regiment.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27462 |date=8 August 1902 |page=5099 }}</ref> He retired in 1903.<ref name="Warsop"/>

While in charge of cricket at the College, he arranged an officer cadets' match against [[William Gilbert Grace|W.G. Grace]]'s XI. Two days before the game Grace wrote to say he would be unable to play, but after learning none of the cadets had seen him play, Wynyard cleverly disguised himself with make-up and false beard and played in the match with the visiting team, batting, making several runs and getting purposely hit on the hand to retire 'hurt'. He revealed his identity minus beard and cap at the teams' lunch but no one had seen through the disguise and his realistic imitation of Grace's batting style.<ref name="Warsop"/>

After the outbreak of [[World War I]], Wynyard was recalled in September 1914 as Major with the [[King's Liverpool Regiment]], then was attached to the [[Royal Army Ordnance Corps|Army Ordnance Corps]] in May 1915 before transferring to the [[Middlesex Regiment]] in November 1916 when he became Commandant at Thornhill Labour Camp, [[Aldershot]]. He finally retired in April 1919 when he was awarded [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]]<ref name="Warsop"/> (military division).

==Sports==

===Cricket===
[[File:Teddy Wynyard Vanity Fair 25 August 1898.jpg|thumb|Wynyard as caricatured by Spy ([[Leslie Ward]]) in [[Vanity Fair (British magazine)|Vanity Fair]], August 1898]]
Wynyard played cricket for his schools, notably for the XI at St Edwards's School, Oxford. He would become President of Charterhouse School's Cricket and Football Club from 1913 to 1919.<ref name="Warsop"/>

He played while stationed in India, in one match scoring 123 and 106 runs, both not out, in different innings and while on home leave in 1887 he scored 233 for the [[Incogniti]] against [[Phoenix Park Cricket Club|Phoenix Park]] in Dublin.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22548.html |title=Teddy Wynyard |work=ESPN cricinfo}}</ref>

Wynyard played in three Test matches for England, one against Australia in 1896 and two against South Africa in 1905–06. He had to decline a place on the Test tour to Australia because of army duties in 1897–98. He was invited to captain England on the Test tour to Australia in 1907–08 but declined for family reasons.<ref name="Warsop"/>

He captained [[Marylebone Cricket Club|M.C.C.]] in their tour in [[New Zealand]] 1906–07 (no Test matches) and made further tours in West Indies 1904–05, topping batting with 562 runs at 40.14; M.C.C. in North America 1907; [[Egypt]] 1909; South Africa 1909–10; United States 1920; and Canada in 1923 when, aged sixty-two, he headed the bowling averages with his underarm lobs.<ref name="Warsop"/>

He played for Hampshire between 1878 and 1908 (including years they were not [[first-class cricket|first-class]] in 1886–94) and captained the county in 1896–99. His final first-class match was for M.C.C. against Oxford University in 1912 and in all he scored 8,313 first-class runs, average 33.00, with 13 centuries including 268 runs for Hampshire against Yorkshire in 1896. In 1896 he was the second-highest scoring first-class player in national batting averages with 1,038 runs, average 49.42. In 1899 he was fifteenth placed with a greater 1,281 runs at 41.32.<ref name="Warsop"/>

Besides the M.C.C., on whose committee he served in 1920–24, he was member of the [[Free Foresters]], and represented the [[South African Cricket Association]] in England in 1908.<ref name="Warsop"/>

===Football===
Wynyard was in the school association football XI at Charterhouse in 1876, and at St Edward's School, Oxford, also took up [[rugby union]] football, playing in that school's XV. In the latter game he was described as "a glorious three-quarter, fast and strong, and could turn on a sixpence when in full cry. Had he not gone into the army, he would have reached the top in the rugger world."<ref name="Warsop"/>

He was more active playing for the old boys' club Old Carthusians, as [[centre-forward]]. [[Charles William Alcock|C.W. Alcock]] described him as "a heavy forward, charging and dribbling well; always middles splendidly" and "good forward, plenty of dash; makes himself obnoxious to the opposing backs".<ref name="Warsop"/>

He centred the Old Carthusians' team at the [[1881 FA Cup Final|FA Cup Final]] at [[Kennington Oval]] on 9 April 1881, and, 25 minutes into the match, he scored his team's first goal in a 3–0 win against the [[Old Etonians F.C.|Old Etonians]]. Earlier in the first half he attempted to score with a [[Glossary of association football terms#H|header]].

He twice played for the [[Corinthians F.C.|Corinthians]] in 1893, scoring five goals. He also appeared in representative matches for London.<ref name="Warsop"/>

===Other sports===
Wynyard won the European international [[toboggan]] championship at [[Davos]], [[Switzerland]] in 1894. It was while in the area he rescued a peasant from drowning in a lake on 9 December 1893, earning the award in 1895 of the medal of the [[Royal Humane Society]].<ref name="Warsop"/>

He played county [[field hockey|hockey]] for Hampshire and later took up golf, forming his own club, "The Jokers" which was drawn largely from distinguished cricketers of which he was "Chief Joker". Other clubs he joined were Beaconsfield, Royal Wimbledon and Oxford Graduates' Golfing Society.<ref name="Warsop"/>

==Later life==
Wynyard died at his home, The Red House, at Knotty Green near [[Beaconsfield]] on 30 October 1936, aged 75, and was buried in the churchyard at [[Penn, Buckinghamshire]].<ref name="Warsop"/>

==Honours==
'''Old Carthusians'''
*[[FA Cup]] winner: [[1881 FA Cup Final|1881]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Teddy Wynyard}}
*{{cricinfo|id=22548}}

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