Edward William Stocks (27 May 1856 – 26 October 1876) was an English cricketer and athlete who played in four first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University, two each in the seasons of 1875 and 1876.
The son of the vice-master of the King's College Grammar School at Norwich, Stocks was educated after the death of his father at the Clergy Orphans' School, Canterbury and at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
[2] As a cricketer, he was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler in the roundarm style.
[1] He did, however, win a Blue in athletics in both 1875 and 1876, competing in the long jump.
[2] Stocks' final cricket match of minor status was for Norfolk against Suffolk in August 1876, when he opened both the batting and the bowling.