Fleetwood Edwards

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Fleetwood Isham Edwards (21 April 1842 – 14 August 1910) was Keeper of the Privy Purse to Queen Victoria from 1895 to 1901.

Early life and personal life After attending Harrow School, Edwards entered Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1861. He received a commission in the Royal Engineers in 1863. Edwards was married to Edith Smith-Masters, who died 9 March 1873. He remarried in 1880 to Mary Routledge Majendie. and later was attached to the special embassy at the Congress of Berlin in 1878.

Edwards served as a Groom-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria from 1880 and 1895, whereupon he became Keeper of the Privy Purse until her death in 1901. He was designated as an Extra Equerry to the Queen from 1888 until her death. He served as an executor of Queen Victoria's will in 1901. Edwards was blamed for not contacting London Zoo, and the animal had to be buried at Windsor Castle. Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) – 2 February 1901 Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd Class, with Star Trustee of Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses He played a number of matches for the Royal Engineers, and for the Knickerbockers.

In 1870, he became a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and he continued to play amateur cricket for I Zingari and other sides until 1872.