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
Born17 October 1805
Winestead, Yorkshire, England
Died10 April 1886(1886-04-10) (aged 80)
Loftus, Yorkshire, England
BattingUnknown
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1832Oxford 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 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

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  1. ^ a b c 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 (1888–1892). "Hildyard, Horatio Samuel" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  5. ^ Foster, Joseph (1874). Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire. Vol. 3. W. Wilfred Head. p. 169.
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