# Horatio Hildyard

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**Horatio Samuel Hildyard** (17 October 1805 – 10 April 1886) was an [English](/source/English_people) first-class [cricketer](/source/Cricket) and clergyman.

The sixth son of the Rev. William Hildyard, he was born in October 1805 at [Winestead, Yorkshire](/source/Winestead).[1] He was educated at [Shrewsbury School](/source/Shrewsbury_School),[2] before going up to [Peterhouse, Cambridge](/source/Peterhouse,_Cambridge) in 1826. He was elected a [fellow](/source/Fellow) in 1831,[1] and while he was a visiting fellow at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford), Hildyard played two [first-class cricket](/source/First-class_cricket) matches for [Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University_Cricket_Club) in 1832, both against the [Marylebone Cricket Club](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club).[3]

Hildyard took [holy orders](/source/Holy_orders#Anglicanism) in the [Church of England](/source/Church_of_England) and was ordained in June 1832 as a priest at [Rochester](/source/Rochester,_Kent), a post he held for just under a year until he was transferred to [Carlisle](/source/Carlisle) in 1833. He became the curate of [Little Wilbraham](/source/Little_Wilbraham) in [Cambridgeshire](/source/Cambridgeshire) from 1834–42, during which time he was also a classics lecturer at the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge). He became a rector at [Loftus](/source/Loftus,_North_Yorkshire) in [North Yorkshire](/source/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](/source/James_Hildyard).[5]

## References

1. Venn, John (2011). [*Alumni Cantabrigienses*](https://books.google.com/books?id=OuU54j4aT6QC). Cambridge University Press. p. 365. ISBN 9781108036146.

1. [*Shrewsbury School Register 1798–1898*](https://archive.org/details/b21778565/page/16/mode/2up). Woodall, Minshall, & Co., Caxton Press. 1898. p. 16.

1. ["First-Class Matches played by Horatio Hildyard"](https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/36/36990/First-Class_Matches.html). CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-05-09.

1. Foster, Joseph (1874). [*Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire*](https://archive.org/details/pedigreesofcount03fost/page/n168/mode/1up). Vol. 3. W. Wilfred Head. p. 169.

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