Evan Nepean (cricketer)

Evan Alcock Nepean (13 September 1865 – 20 January 1906) was an English barrister and first-class cricketer.

Active 1886–1902, he played for Middlesex, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and Oxford University.

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

[7] Nepean was a noted all-rounder, 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.

[7] 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 Royal Scots Fusiliers.