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William Slaney Kenyon-Slaney (
24 August 1847 –
24 April 1908), sportsman, soldier and politician.
Kenyon-Slaney was born in
Rajkot in
Gujarat in
India, the son of Captain William Kenyon of the 2nd Bombay cavalry and Frances Catherine Slaney, daughter of Robert A. Slaney of Shropshire. Upon the death of Robert Slaney in
1862 the Kenyon family inherited the Slaney family estate of Hatton Grange near
Shifnal in Shropshire and the Kenyon family name was changed to Kenyon-Slaney.
Kenyon-Slaney was educated at
Eton and briefly at
Christ Church, Oxford. In November 1867 he left Oxford and received a commission into the 3rd battalion of the
Grenadier Guards. Kenyon Slaney was a noted sportsman and played first-class cricket for Shropshire and the MCC. He was also a keen
association football player playing for
Wanderers and was selected to play for
England against
Scotland in the second ever football international on
8 March 1873, where he scored two goals. Kenyon-Slaney became the first player to score in an international football match as the first international between the two nations in November the previous year had been a goalless draw.
In 1882 under the command of
Sir Garnet Wolseley he took part in the
Battle of Tel el-Kebir during the
Urabi Revolt and was decorated for his efforts. In 1887 was promoted to colonel and placed on half pay. He fully retired from the military in 1892.
On
22 February 1887, he married Lady Mabel Selina Bridgeman, daughter of the
3rd Earl of Bradford; they'd two children; a daughter Sybil Agnes Kenyon-Slaney b. 1888; and a son Robert Orlando Rodolph Kenyon-Slaney b. 1892.
In 1886 Kenyon-Slaney was elected to Parliament to represent the
Newport division of Shropshire for the
Conservative Party which he represented until 1908.
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