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(1886-04-10) (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 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]