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Full name
  
Edward Lacy Challenor

Batting style
  
Right-handed

Name
  
Edward Challenor


Born
  
10 March 1873 (
1873-03-10
)
Barbados

Died
  
15 September 1935(1935-09-15) (aged 62)

Brigadier-General Edward Lacy Challenor (10 March 1873 – 15 September 1935) was a British Army officer and first-class cricketer from Barbados.

He played in England with Leicestershire and in South Africa with Western Province and Natal. His brother George played Test cricket for West Indies.

Challenor served with the British Army in the First World War and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He commanded the Leicestershire Regiment from August 1919 to August 1923. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1918 New Year Honours. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1919 New Year Honours and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1923 New Year Honours.

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