Henry Grey Tylecote (24 July 1853 – 8 March 1935) was an English first-class

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er and educator. Tylecote appeared in 29 first-class matches between 1874 and 1886, playing the majority of these for

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, as well as appearing for the

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amongst others.

Early life and varsity cricket

The son of the Reverend Thomas B. D. Tylecote and his wife, Elizabeth Tylecote (née Fereday), he was born in the rectory at

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in July 1853. He was educated at

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, before going up to

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. While studying at Oxford, he made his debut in

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for

against the

(MCC) at

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in 1874. He played first-class cricket for Oxford University until 1877, making nineteen first-class appearances. He scored a total of 219 runs in these matches, with a high score of 39, while with the ball he took 34 wickets at an

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of 13.00, with best figures of 8 for 51. These figures, one of three

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s he took, came against the MCC in 1877. Playing as the Oxford

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, he also took 19 catches and made 5

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s. While at Oxford, he also played a single first-class match for a combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities Past and Present cricket team against the

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in 1874. He won a

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in cricket for all four of his years playing for Oxford. While at Oxford, Tylecote was also prominent in the athletics club as a half-mile and mile runner. He finished second to the

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runner the 1877 mile race.

Later life and first-class cricket

In 1877, he featured for the Gentlemen in the

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fixture at Chelsea. Two years later he featured for the South in the

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fixture, played for the benefit of

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. He first featured for the MCC in 1877, and would feature in four first-class matches for them until 1886. He made additional first-class appearances for the Old Oxonians in 1881 (recording his only first-class half century), for the South in the North v South fixture of 1883, and for

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in 1886. Tylecote made a total of 29 first-class appearances, scoring 442 runs and taking 45 wickets. Having graduated from Oxford in 1877, he became a schoolteacher. He taught at the Golden Parsonage Preparatory School and at

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, where he taught alongside

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. He later played

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for

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in 1900, making a single appearance in the

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. He died at Summertown in

in March 1935. His brother,

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, played

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for

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