Henry Thomas Stanley (20 August 1873 – 16 September 1900) was an English

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er who played 63 first-class matches for

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and the

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(MCC) between 1894 and 1899. He was the older son of the wealthy Edward Stanley MP and heir to the

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Estate in Somerset. He gained the rank of

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in the service of the West Somerset Yeoman Cavalry, and was killed in action during the

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, at Hekpoort, South Africa in 1900. An account of his death and burial in South Africa is given in ''A Yeoman's Letters'' by P. T. Ross. He has a large granite memorial cross in the churchyard at

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, Somerset, inscribed:

NOT HERE HE LIES NOT HERE
BUT FAR AWAY IN OTHER EARTH
BY OTHER GRASS OERSPREAD
YET BY HIS HOME
THIS CROSS SHALL STAND & SAY
HE LIVES AMONG HIS OWN

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A Yeoman's Letters, by P. T. Ross
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