Edwin Stephenson
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Edwin "Ned" Stephenson, also erroneously called Edward, often Ned or Merry Ned, was wicket-keeper of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club in the 1850s and 1860s. He was born at Headford Street, Sheffield on 5 June 1832 and died at Tue Brook Asylum for Inebriates in Liverpool on 5 July 1898. According to Wisden his batting style was right hand bat and he operated as a right arm fast (round arm) bowler.
In the 1850s Ned Stephenson ran a tobacconist and cricket ball shop on Bramall Lane, Sheffield, home of Yorkshire County Cricket Club in the mid nineteenth century, and later home to Sheffield United Football Club.
In 1861, along with fellow Yorkshiremen Roger Iddison, Ned Stephenson sailed to Australia as part of the first unofficial English cricket team to visit Australia. On 1, 3, and 4 March 1862, he was part of The World team who defeated the Surrey XI at Melbourne Cricket Ground by six wickets. His swan song was as part of a winning Yorkshire team against Lancashire County Cricket Club at Bramall Lane on 1 July 1873 in front of a partisan Sheffield crowd, and alongside his long-time cricketing partner and fellow Sheffielder, Joseph (Joe) Rowbotham.
He was the great-uncle of Harry Taylor of Shiregreen, Sheffield and great great uncle of Brian Holmshaw of Nether Green, Sheffield.
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- Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians - various publications
- Scores and Biographies by Arthur Haygarth
