Horatio Hildyard

Horatio Samuel Hildyard (17 October 1805 – 10 April 1886) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.

Horatio Hildyard

Personal information
Full name	Horatio Samuel Hildyard
Born	17 October 1805 Winestead, Yorkshire, England
Died	10 April 1886 (aged 80) Loftus, Yorkshire, England
Batting	Unknown
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1832	Oxford University
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 2 Runs scored 10 Batting average 2.50 100s/50s –/– Top score 4 Catches/stumpings –/–
Source: Cricinfo, 9 May 2020

The son of The Reverend William Hildyard, he was born in October 1805 at Winestead, Yorkshire.[1] He was educated at Shrewsbury School,[2] before going up to Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1826. He was elected a fellow in 1831,[1] and while he was a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford, Hildyard played two first-class cricket matches for Oxford University in 1832, both against the Marylebone Cricket Club.[3]

Hildyard took holy orders in the Church of England and was ordained in June 1832 as a priest at Rochester, a post he held for just under a year until he was transferred to Carlisle in 1833. He became the curate of Little Wilbraham in Cambridgeshire from 1834–42, during which time he was also a classics lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He became a rector at Loftus in North Yorkshire from 1842 until his death there in April 1886.[1][4] His brother was the scholar James Hildyard.

References

1. Venn, John (2011). Alumni Cantabrigienses. Cambridge University Press. p. 365. ISBN 9781108036146.
2. Shrewsbury School Register 1798–1898. Woodall, Minshall, & Co., Caxton Press. 1898. p. 16.
3. "First-Class Matches played by Horatio Hildyard". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
4. Foster, Joseph (1891). Alumni Oxonienses. Parker and Company. p. 658.

External links

• Horatio Hildyard at ESPNcricinfo