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About Edward Fawcett
- Captain Edward Boyd Fawcett (11 October 1839 – 26 September 1884) was a British army officer and English cricketer active from 1859 to 1863.
- He was the father of explorer Percy Fawcett. Edward was born in India in Poona, British India to Henry Fawcett and Mary Sophia Fawcett.
- He was educated at Brighton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.Fawcett played for the Sussex County Cricket Club.
- He appeared in 21 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right-arm fast medium with a roundarm action.
- He scored 326 runs with a highest score of 53 and took 57 wickets with a best performance of six for 56.
- Fawcett enjoyed a privileged upbringing.
- He became friends with the Prince of Wales, Albert Edward, the future Edward VII, and was appointed the prince's royal equerry.
- In 1865, he married Myra Elizabeth MacDougall, only daughter of Colonel Andrew MacDougall, of Halebank, Torquay.
- He settled the family in Devon, where they had two sons, Edward Douglas in 1866 and Percy Harrison in 1867, followed by three daughters.Fawcett earned a reputation for heavy drinking, gambling and philandering.
- He was born into money and married into it, and he squandered away both family fortunes.
- Already ill from alcoholism, he died of tuberculosis at age 44 in Teignmouth, Devon.
- His widow died in London on 14 October 1902.
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