Brigadier-General Cecil Vernon Wingfield-Stratford CB, CMG (7 October 1853 – 5 February 1939)[1] was a British Army officer in the Royal Engineers and an English international footballer who played as a forward.
Born in West Malling, Wingfield-Stratford was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich,[2] a descendant of the ancient Stratford Family.
Wingfield-Stratford played as outside-left for the Woolwich Academy and for Royal Engineers, and earned one cap for England versus Scotland in 1877.
[5] The Engineers' scorer in both matches, coincidentally, was Henry Waugh Renny-Tailyour who in September the same year married a sister of Wingfield-Stratford.
[2] Wingfield-Stratford died in retirement aged eighty-five at Fartherwell, West Malling, on 5 February 1939.