Edward Lloyd (cricketer)
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Edward Wynell Mayow Lloyd (19 March 1845 – 27 September 1928) was an English schoolmaster and a cricketer who played
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for
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and the
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(MCC) between 1866 and 1868. He was born at
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,
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and died at Hartford Bridge,
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,
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. Lloyd was educated at
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and at St John's College, Cambridge. As a cricketer, he was a middle-order right-handed batsman, and he was tried for matches for Cambridge University in both 1866 and 1868 – in one of the 1868 games, he played for the MCC ''against'' the university side – but he achieved little and was not awarded a
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. He continued to play in minor matches after leaving Cambridge and appeared for both the
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and
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teams in non-first-class matches, including one game for Somerset in 1879 that is the basis of disputes about the cricket career statistics of
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(see
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). In one of these minor matches featuring many of the players who were instrumental in the setting up of Somerset County Cricket Club, Lloyd made an unbeaten 100 for the Gentlemen of Somerset against the Gentlemen of Dorset. At his only match for Shropshire, in 1868, he scored a century of 108 runs. On leaving Cambridge, he became a schoolmaster at Marlborough College from 1868 to 1875 and was then the headmaster of a preparatory school, Hartford House School, at Hartley Wintney until his retirement in 1910. He died in 1928 aged 83. A brief obituary in ''
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'' states that he was "one of the most successful private schoolmasters in the country" and that he achieved many scholarships at public schools, principally at
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, for his pupils.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lloyd, Edward 1845 births 1928 deaths English cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge