Edwin Moulder (9 October 1873 – 21 November 1942) was a Guyanese
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er. He played in sixteen
first-class matches for
British Guiana
British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies, which resides on the northern coast of South America. Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana.
The first European to encounter Guiana was S ...
from 1901 to 1913.
He was born in Friendship Village, East Coast
Demerara
Demerara ( nl, Demerary, ) is a historical region in the Guianas, on the north coast of South America, now part of the country of Guyana. It was a colony of the Dutch West India Company between 1745 and 1792 and a colony of the Dutch state fro ...
. His father was a former vicar. After attending attended
Queens College
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, he won the Guiana Scholarship in 1891, going on to read Modern History at New College School and Merton College, Oxford earning his BA (Hons) in 1896 and his MA in 1908.
Moulder began teaching in 1899 in Kent, Winchester then
Barbados
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until he was appointed Assistant Master at Queen's College in 1901. He also served as Inspector of Schools, Director of Primary Education, Examiner to the Education Department and as Censor in the First World War. He was appointed Principal of Queen's College in 1920 and retired in 1929.
He died in Barbados.
See also
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List of Guyanese representative cricketers
The Guyana cricket team represents, originally, the British colony of British Guiana and later the independent state of Guyana.
Guyana's inaugural first-class match (as British Guiana) commenced on 29 August 1895 against Trinidad at Bourda in Ge ...
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1873 births
1942 deaths
Guyanese cricketers
Guyana cricketers
Sportspeople from Georgetown, Guyana
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