Guy Edwards (cricketer)
Guy Janion Edwards MC (11 May 1881 – 30 September 1962) was an English cricketer active in 1907 who played for Essex. He was born in Kensington and died in Upper Slaughter. He appeared in two first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who scored 45 runs with a highest score of 21.[1]
He served in the Coldstream Guards in World War I and was awarded an MC in 1917.
Origins
[edit]He was a son of Arthur Edwards of Beech Hill Park, Waltham Abbey, Essex,[2] by his wife Hilda Tennant, a daughter of Robert Tennant (1828-1900) of Chapel House in the parish of Conistone, Yorkshire, Member of Parliament for Leeds. His younger brother was the polo player Captain Arthur Noel Edwards (1883-1915).
Notes
[edit]- ^ Guy Edwards at CricketArchive
- ^ Essex Review: An Illustrated Quarterly Record of Everything of Permanent Interest in the County. 1929. p. 207.
He married in 1880 Hilda, daughter of Rober Tennant of Scarcroft, Yorks, and had three sons, all serving in the war, when Captain Arthur Noel Edwards, the second son, was killed, he was buried at High Beech ...
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