The Right Honourable William Kenyon-Slaney PC
Kenyon-Slaney in 1906
Member of Parliament forNewport (Shropshire)
In office 1 July 1886 – 24 April 1908
Preceded by	Robert Bickersteth
Succeeded by	Beville Stanier
Personal details
Born	William Slaney Kenyon (1847-08-24)24 August 1847 Rajkot,Gujarat,British India
Died	24 April 1908(1908-04-24) (aged 60) Shifnal,Shropshire, England
Resting place	St Andrew's Parish Churchyard,Ryton
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Mabel Selina Bridgeman ​ ​ (m. 1887)​
Children	Sybil Robert
Association football career Position Forward Senior career* Years Team Apps (Gls) Oxford University ?–1873 Wanderers 1875–1876 Old Etonians International career 1873 England[1] 1 (2) * Club domestic league appearances and goals
Cricket career
Cricket information
Batting	Right-handed
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1869 – 1880	Marylebone Cricket Club
Career statistics
Competition FC Matches 11 Runs scored 145 Batting average 10.35 100s/50s 0/0 Top score 34 Balls bowled – Wickets – Bowling average – 5 wickets in innings – 10 wickets in match – Best bowling – Catches/stumpings 2/–
Source:Cricinfo

William Slaney Kenyon-SlaneyPC (24 August 1847 – 24 April 1908) was an English sportsman, soldier and politician.

Kenyon-Slaney was born on 24 August 1847 inRajkot inGujarat inBritish India. He was the son of Captain William Kenyon of the 2nd Bombay Cavalry and Frances Catherine Slaney, daughter ofRobert Aglionby Slaney of Hatton Grange nearShifnal, Shropshire. Upon the death of Robert Slaney in 1862 the Kenyon family inherited the Slaney family estate of Hatton Grange and the Kenyon family name was changed to Kenyon-Slaney.

Kenyon-Slaney was educated atEton College and briefly atChrist Church, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1865.^[2] In November 1867, he left Oxford and received a commission into the 3rd battalion of theGrenadier Guards.

Kenyon-Slaney was a noted sportsman and played first-class cricket for theMarylebone Cricket Club (MCC), as well as playing at county level forShropshire between 1865 and 1879.^[3] He was also a keenassociation football player playing forWanderers and was selected to play forEngland againstScotland in the second ever football international on 8 March 1873, where he scored two goals.^[4][5][6][7] 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.

He also took part for the Wanderers on the winning side in the1873 FA Cup Final and on the losing side for theOld Etonians in the drawn first match of the1875 Final and both matches of the1876 Final.^[8]

In 1882 under the command ofSir Garnet Wolseley he took part in theBattle of Tel el-Kebir during theUrabi Revolt and was decorated for his efforts. In 1887 he was promoted tocolonel and placed on half pay. He fully retired from the military in 1892.

After unsuccessfully contesting theWellington division of Shropshire in the1885 general election,^[9] Kenyon-Slaney was in 1886 elected to Parliament to represent theNewport division of Shropshire for theConservative Party which he represented until his death in 1908.

On 22 February 1887, he married Lady Mabel Selina Bridgeman (1855–1933), daughter ofOrlando Bridgeman, 3rd Earl of Bradford and the formerHon. Selina Weld-Forester (a daughter of the1st Baron Forester), Together, they had two children:

• Sybil Agnes Kenyon-Slaney (1888–1970), who served asLady-in-Waiting toThe Princess Royal between 1923 and 1947.^[10]
• Robert Orlando Rodolph Kenyon-Slaney (1892–1965), who wasHigh Sheriff of Shropshire in 1935; he married Lady Mary Cecilia Rhodesia Hamilton, a daughter ofJames Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn andLady Rosalind Bingham, in 1917. They divorced in 1930,^[11] and he married Nesta Forestier-Walker, a daughter ofSir George Forestier-Walker, 3rd Baronet and Georgina Emily Chamberlain, in 1931.^[12]

Kenyon-Slaney died from an attack ofgout on 24 April 1908. He was buried at St Andrew's Parish Churchyard,Ryton, Shropshire.^[13]

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• List of English cricket and football players

• Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912)."Kenyon-Slaney, William Slaney" .Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• Cricinfo - Players and Officials - William Kenyon-Slaney at content-uk.cricinfo.com
• William Kenyon-Slaney at England Football Online
• Hansard 1803–2005:contributions in Parliament by William Kenyon-Slaney

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