Horatio Samuel Hildyard (17 October 1805 – 10 April 1886) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.
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| Full name | Horatio Samuel Hildyard | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 October 1805 Winestead, Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 10 April 1886 (aged 80) Loftus, Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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| 1832 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||
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The sixth son of the Rev. 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] On 12 June 1861 he married Octavia Richardson, daughter of William Richardson, Lord Mayor of York in 1847. They had 3 sons and 4 daughters. His brother was the scholar James Hildyard.[5]
References edit
- ^ a b c Venn, John (2011). Alumni Cantabrigienses. Cambridge University Press. p. 365. ISBN 9781108036146.
- ^ Shrewsbury School Register 1798–1898. Woodall, Minshall, & Co., Caxton Press. 1898. p. 16.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Horatio Hildyard". CricketArchive. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1874). Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire. Vol. 3. W. Wilfred Head. p. 169.