Edward Turnour, 4th Earl Winterton (18 May 1810 – 1 March 1879) was a first-class cricketer who played 25 times for
Sussex County Cricket Club
Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Sussex. Its limited overs team is called the Sussex Sharks. The c ...
, without much success. The 4th Earl also had one of the finest beagle packs of the time, rivaled only by those of Prince Albert and the Rev. Phillip Honeywood, from whose pack the entire line of modern beagles is descended.
He was commissioned as
Captain
Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader or highest rank officer of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police depa ...
of the
6th (Petworth) Sussex Rifle Volunteer Corps on 26 April 1860.
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1810 births
1879 deaths
Volunteer Force officers
English cricketers
Sussex cricketers
Petworth cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
English cricketers of 1826 to 1863
Presidents of the Marylebone Cricket Club
Fast v Slow cricketers
Earls Winterton
People from Sunbury-on-Thames
Royal Sussex Regiment officers
19th-century British Army personnel
Military personnel from Surrey
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