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Evan Nepean Sir Evan Nepean, 1st Baronet, PC FRS (9 July 1752 – 2 October 1822)Sparrow (n.d.) was a British politician and colonial administrator. He was the first of the Nepean baronets. Family Nepean was born at St. Stephens near Saltash, Cornwal ...

.'' Evan Alcock Nepean (13 September 1865 – 20 January 1906) was an English barrister and

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er. Active 1886–1902, he played for

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(MCC) and

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Life

He was the son of Sir Evan Colville Nepean (1836–1908) of the War Office and his wife Elizabeth Jenner, born in

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. He was educated at St Mark's School,

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, and

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. He matriculated at

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in 1884, and played in the University cricket XI in 1887 and 1888. Nepean was

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at the

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in 1891, and subsequently played less cricket, concentrating on his legal career; but he played for the MCC against the Australians at Lords in 1893. He died in Windsor. He had suffered pneumonia after influenza. At the time he was one of the counsel in the case of the Daira Sanieh corporation of Egypt. Initially he had been junior to

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, who gave up the brief in 1905 on entering government.

Cricketer

Nepean played 45 matches for Middlesex; his uncles Augustus Nepean and

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were also Middlesex cricketers. His final first-class game was for the MCC in 1902. He also played for

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. Nepean was a noted

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, and Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein claimed to have discovered his talent at the 1887 Perambulators v. Etceteras trial match at Oxford for public school boys. He did well with bat and ball in Oxford's 1887 victory in the

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. He was considered to be at his peak in 1889. He was initially a

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; later he bowled leg breaks.

Family

Nepean married in 1892 Evelyn Reid, daughter of Cecil Frederick Read, a director of Reid's Brewery Co.; they had a son, Evan Cecil, born in 1893, died 4 October 1918 serving in the

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References

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