# Elliot Tillard
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{{Short description|English cricketer (1880–1967)}}
{{EngvarB|date=August 2013}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Elliot Tillard
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = Elliot Dowell Tillard
| height =
| nickname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1880|7|22|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [Cheltenham](/source/Cheltenham), Gloucestershire, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1967|2|19|1880|7|22|df=yes}}
| death_place = [Flexbury](/source/Flexbury), [Bude](/source/Bude), Cornwall, England
| batting =
| bowling =
| role = All-rounder
| family =
| club1 = [Europeans](/source/Europeans_cricket_team)
| year1 = {{nowrap|1907/08–1922/23}}
| club2 = [Somerset](/source/Somerset_County_Cricket_Club)
| year2 = 1912
| type1 = [FC](/source/First-class_cricket)
| debutdate1 = 12 September
| debutyear1 = 1907
| debutfor1 = Europeans
| debutagainst1 = [Parsees](/source/Parsees_cricket_team)
| lastdate1 = 13 September
| lastyear1 = 1922
| lastfor1 = Europeans
| lastagainst1 = Parsees
| columns = 1
| column1 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket)
| matches1 = 16
| runs1 = 357
| bat avg1 = 12.31
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 39
| deliveries1 = 419
| wickets1 = 14
| bowl avg1 = 15.78
| fivefor1 = 2
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 6/40
| catches/stumpings1 = 3/–
| date = 15 January
| year = 2011
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3853/3853.html CricketArchive
}}
'''Elliot Dowell Tillard''' (22 July 1880 – 19 February 1967) was a British officer who played [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket) for the [Europeans cricket team](/source/Europeans_cricket_team) in India and for [Somerset](/source/Somerset_County_Cricket_Club).[{{cite web | url = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3853/3853.html| title = Elliot Tillard |publisher=www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 13 January 2011}}]
==Early life and military career==
Tillard was born at [Cheltenham](/source/Cheltenham), Gloucestershire, in 1880. He joined the [Royal Engineers](/source/Royal_Engineers) as a [second lieutenant](/source/second_lieutenant) on 20 August 1899, and was promoted to [lieutenant](/source/Lieutenant_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)) on 1 April 1902.[{{London Gazette| issue=27433 |page=3178 |date=13 May 1902}}] In late 1902 he was stationed in [India](/source/British_Raj).
He died at [Flexbury](/source/Flexbury), [Bude](/source/Bude), Cornwall, in 1967.
==Cricket==
A middle- or lower-order batsman and a fairly regular though usually not front-line bowler, Tillard's batting and bowling styles are not known. His first appearances in first-class cricket were for the Europeans team in the Bombay Presidency matches at [Pune](/source/Pune) and the [Bombay Triangular](/source/Bombay_Triangular) competition. In 1912, he was in England for the cricket season and played nine times for Somerset, playing as a batsman. His highest score in these matches (and his highest in first-class cricket) came in the match against [Gloucestershire](/source/Gloucestershire_County_Cricket_Club) at [Taunton](/source/County_Ground%2C_Taunton), when he made 39 in the first innings and followed with 29 in the second.[{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8681.html| title = Scorecard: Somerset v Gloucestershire | date = 27 May 1912 |publisher=www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 14 January 2011}}]
Tillard's final match for Somerset was in late July 1912; less than a month later, he was playing first-class cricket in Pune again, and in the second of two matches at the end of August 1912, and having previously taken only one first-class wicket, he took six for 40 playing for J. G. Greig's XI against the [Hindus cricket team](/source/Hindus_cricket_team), the best bowling performance of his first-class career.[{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8886.html| title = Scorecard: JG Greig's XI v Hindus| date = 29 August 1912 |publisher=www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 14 January 2011}}] Tillard then appeared in only one further first-class cricket match: just over 10 years later, he played in the [Bombay Quadrangular](/source/Bombay_Quadrangular) tournament for the Europeans against the [Parsees cricket team](/source/Parsees_cricket_team) and took five for 71 in the Parsees' second innings, and scored 34, his highest in India, in the Europeans' second innings.[{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10641.html| title = Scorecard: Europeans v Parsees | date = 11 September 1922 |publisher=www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 14 January 2011}}] As late as 1927, when he was 47, he was playing in non-first-class matches in what is now [Pakistan](/source/Pakistan).[{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3853/Other_matches.html |title=Other matches played by Elliot Tillard |publisher=www.cricketarchive.com |access-date=14 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107014343/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3853/Other_matches.html |archivedate=7 November 2012 |df=dmy }}]
==Family==
Several of Tillard's family played first-class cricket. Tillard's father [Charles Tillard](/source/Charles_Tillard) played for [Cambridge University](/source/Cambridge_University_Cricket_Club) and [Surrey](/source/Surrey_County_Cricket_Club); his grandfather [Edward Dowell](/source/Edward_Dowell) played for Cambridge University. An uncle [Avison Terry Scott](/source/Avison_Scott) played for both Cambridge University and [Cambridgeshire](/source/Cambridgeshire_County_Cricket_Club) in first-class matches; Scott's son [George Arbuthnot Scott](/source/George_Arbuthnot_Scott) played for Cambridge University, while a second son (Tillard's cousin) [Arthur Avison Scott](/source/Arthur_Avison_Scott) played one first-class match for the [Royal Navy cricket team](/source/Royal_Navy_cricket_team).
==References==
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Category:Royal Engineers officers
Category:British people in British India
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