Percy de Paravicini

Percy John de Paravicini CVO (15 July 1862 – 11 October 1921) was an English amateur cricketer and international footballer in the late nineteenth century.

He was born in Kensington, London, the son of Baron James Prior de Paravicini, of Riverside, Datchet, Windsor.

De Paravicini was one of an elite few to have played for the Eton College cricket XI for four consecutive years, and arguably he was one of the best players the school has had.

In the match at The Oval for the university against Surrey in June he made his best score to date with 61 in the first innings and taking 4 wickets for 26 runs.

In the match itself, de Paravicini and Arthur Kinnaird managed to contain the Blackburn Rovers forwards, whilst the Old Boys' forwards continually created problems for the Rovers' defence until Reginald Macaulay managed to steer the ball between the Blackburn goalposts for the only goal of the game.

England comfortably defeated the Welsh 5–0 (with a hat trick from Clement Mitchell) and the Irish 7–0, but lost out to the Scots by the odd goal in five.

On 31 March 1883, the Old Etonians reached the FA Cup final for the third consecutive year and were comfortable favourites to defeat Blackburn Olympic.

He also played for Windsor football club and made representative appearances for London, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, and The South versus The North.