Elliot Tillard
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Full name | Elliot Dowell Tillard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England | 22 July 1880||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 19 February 1967 Flexbury, Bude, Cornwall, England | (aged 86)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1907/08–1922/23 | Europeans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1912 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Last FC | 13 September 1922 Europeans v Parsees | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 15 January 2011 |
Elliot Dowell Tillard (22 July 1880 – 19 February 1967) was a British officer who played first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team in India and for Somerset.[1]
Early life and military career
Tillard was born at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in 1880. He joined the Royal Engineers as a second lieutenant on 20 August 1899, and was promoted to lieutenant on 1 April 1902.[2] In late 1902 he was stationed in India.
He died at Flexbury, 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
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
Family
Several of Tillard's family played first-class cricket. Tillard's father
References
- ^ "Elliot Tillard". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 13 January 2011.
- ^ "No. 27433". The London Gazette. 13 May 1902. p. 3178.
- ^ "Scorecard: Somerset v Gloucestershire". www.cricketarchive.com. 27 May 1912. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- ^ "Scorecard: JG Greig's XI v Hindus". www.cricketarchive.com. 29 August 1912. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- ^ "Scorecard: Europeans v Parsees". www.cricketarchive.com. 11 September 1922. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- ^ "Other matches played by Elliot Tillard". www.cricketarchive.com. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2011.