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Henry Tindall

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Henry Tindall
Personal information
Born4 February 1863
Margate, Kent, England
Died10 June 1940 (aged 77)
Peasmarsh, East Sussex, England
Sport
SportAthletics
Event440/880 yards

The Reverend Henry Charles Lenox Tindall (4 February 1863 – 10 June 1940) was a British head master, priest and world-record-holding track athlete; he was also an English first-class cricketer active 1893–95 who played for Kent. He was born in Margate and died in Peasmarsh.[1][2]

Biography

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Tindall was born in Margate, Kent, on 4 February 1863 and was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge; while at university he ran and swam, and in 1884–1885 he was Cambridge quarter-mile champion.[3] In 1886, he was president of the University Athletic Club, in the same year he won both the 100 yards and quarter-mile race against Oxford University.[3]

Tindall became the British quarter–mile champion after winning the AAA Championships title at the 1888 AAA Championships.[4][5] In 1889, he successfully defended his quarter–mile title at the 1889 AAA Championships, recording 48.5 seconds, a world record that also stood as a British amateur record until 1911.[3] At the 1889 championships, he also won the half–mile title.[6]

After university he played Rugby for Rosalyn Park and in cricket appeared for Kent from 1893 to 1895.[3] In 1894 he appeared at a match in Hastings for the South of England against The Australians. Tindall was also a member of the Rye Golf Club from 1894 until is death.[3]

He left Cambridge with a second-class degree in the mathematics tripos and he had also been a Tancred Divinity Scholar.[3] He became a mathematical master at Hurst Court School in Hastings, becoming the headmaster in 1905.[3] In 1934 he left the school to become rector of Iden.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Henry Tindall, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-06-05. (subscription required)
  2. ^ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 529–530. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Famous Athelete [sic?] - The Rev H.C.L. Tindall". Hastings and St Leonards Observer. 15 June 1940. p. 7.
  4. ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
  5. ^ "The Amateur Athletic Championships". Sporting Life. 2 July 1888. Retrieved 2024-07-04 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "Amateur Athletic Association". London Evening Standard. 1 July 1889. Retrieved 2024-07-05 – via British Newspaper Archive.