Edward Turnour, 4th Earl Winterton
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Edward Turnour, 4th Earl Winterton (18 May 1810 – 1 March 1879) was a first-class cricketer who played 25 times for
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, 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
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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 {{Ireland-earl-stub