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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = William Faviell<br />
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| full_name = William Frederick Oliver Faviell<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1882|6|5|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Loughton]], [[Essex]], England<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1950|2|14|1882|6|5|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Nairobi]], [[Kenya]]<br />
| batting = Right-handed<br />
| bowling = <br />
| role = [[Bowling (cricket)|Bowler]]<br />
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| club1 = [[Essex County Cricket Club|Essex]]<br />
| year1 = 1903–1910<br />
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| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]<br />
| matches1 = 14<br />
| runs1 = 241<br />
| bat avg1 = 12.68<br />
| 100s/50s1 = 0/1<br />
| top score1 = 66[[not out|*]]<br />
| deliveries1 = <br />
| wickets1 = 10<br />
| bowl avg1 = 26.10<br />
| fivefor1 = 0<br />
| tenfor1 = 0<br />
| best bowling1 = 3/40<br />
| catches/stumpings1 = 11/0<br />
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| date = 22 July 2013<br />
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/12815.html Cricinfo<br />
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'''William Frederick Oliver Faviell''' (5 June 1882 &ndash; 4 February 1950) was a [[British Army]] officer and [[cricket]]er who played for [[Essex County Cricket Club|Essex]] between 1903 and 1910.<ref name="Cricinfo">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/12815.html |title= William Faviell |accessdate=2013-07-22 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref> He was the [[Resident Governor of the Tower of London and Keeper of the Jewel House|Resident Governor of the Tower of London]] from 1933 until his retirement in 1945.<br />
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==Military career==<br />
Faviell was commissioned into the 3rd ([[Militia (United Kingdom)|Militia]]) Battalion of the [[East Surrey Regiment]] in November 1900. He received a commission in the regular army as a [[second lieutenant]] in the [[Worcestershire Regiment]] on 30 April 1902,<ref>{{London Gazette| issue=27429 |pages=2862–2863 |date=29 April 1902}}</ref> and was stationed with his battalion in [[Orange River Colony]] to secure the peace after the end of the [[Second Boer War]] in June 1902. He left [[Cape Town]] for the United Kingdom four months later, on the SS ''Orient'' which arrived at [[Southampton]] in November 1902.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Army in South Africa – Troops returning home |date=22 October 1902 |page=9 |issue=36905}}</ref><br />
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He was seconded for service with the [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]] in January 1903,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27528|page=1218|date=24 February 1903}}</ref> and spent most of the years until 1914 with the regiment's Second Battalion in [[South Africa]] and [[India]], before returning to England. In September 1915, he participated in the [[Landing at Suvla Bay]], and in November of that year took of command of the 9th Battalion. In 1918, by then Commander of the 39th Brigade, a part of the [[Dunsterforce]], he took part in the [[Battle of Baku|evacuation of Baku]]. Faviell was later in the [[Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)|Queen's Royal Regiment]], before returning to his old Regiment in 1927. He went with the 1st Battalion to Allahabad and [[Shanghai]] before returning home in 1931. In 1933 he was appointed Major and Resident Governor of the Tower of London, a position he held throughout World War II, before retiring.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lieutenant-Colonel William Frederick Oliver FAVIELL, D.S.O. |url=http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/wr.php?main=inc/o_faviell |website=The Worcestershire Regiment |access-date=6 June 2024}}</ref><br />
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==External links==<br />
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*{{cricketarchive|ref=Archive/Players/4/4864/4864.html}}<br />
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