| Country: | England |
| Fullname: | Henry Grey Tylecote |
| Birth Date: | 24 July 1853 |
| Birth Place: | Marston Moreteyne, Bedfordshire, England |
| Death Place: | Summertown, Oxfordshire, England |
| Family: | Edward Tylecote (brother) |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm roundarm medium |
| Role: | Wicket-keeper |
| Club1: | Oxford University |
| Year1: | 1874–1877 |
| Club2: | Marylebone Cricket Club |
| Year2: | 1879–1886 |
| Club3: | Hertfordshire |
| Year3: | 1900 |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 29 |
| Runs1: | 442 |
| Bat Avg1: | 11.94 |
| 100S/50S1: | –/1 |
| Top Score1: | 54 |
| Deliveries1: | 1,839 |
| Wickets1: | 45 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 17.24 |
| Fivefor1: | 3 |
| Tenfor1: | – |
| Best Bowling1: | 8/51 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 25/5 |
| Date: | 8 July |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/21998.html Cricinfo |
Henry Grey Tylecote (24 July 1853 – 8 March 1935) was an English first-class cricketer and educator.[1] Tylecote appeared in 29 first-class matches between 1874 and 1886, playing the majority of these for Oxford University, as well as appearing for the Marylebone Cricket Club amongst others.[2]
The son of the Reverend Thomas B. D. Tylecote and his wife, Elizabeth Tylecote (née Fereday), he was born in the rectory at Marston Moreteyne in July 1853.[3] He was educated at Clifton College,[4] [5] before going up to New College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he made his debut in first-class cricket for Oxford University against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Oxford in 1874. He played first-class cricket for Oxford University until 1877, making nineteen first-class appearances.[6] He scored a total of 219 runs in these matches, with a high score of 39,[7] while with the ball he took 34 wickets at an average of 13.00, with best figures of 8 for 51.[8] These figures, one of three five wicket hauls he took, came against the MCC in 1877.[9] Playing as the Oxford wicket-keeper, he also took 19 catches and made 5 stumpings.[7]
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 Gentlemen of England in 1874.[6] He won a blue in cricket for all four of his years playing for Oxford.[3] While at Oxford, Tylecote was also prominent in the athletics club as a half-mile and mile runner. He finished second to the Cambridge runner the 1877 mile race.[10]
In 1877, he featured for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players fixture at Chelsea.[6] Two years later he featured for the South in the North v South fixture, played for the benefit of James Southerton.[10] He first featured for the MCC in 1877, and would feature in four first-class matches for them until 1886.[6] He made additional first-class appearances for the Old Oxonians in 1881 (recording his only first-class half century),[11] for the South in the North v South fixture of 1883, and for I Zingari in 1886.[6] Tylecote made a total of 29 first-class appearances, scoring 442 runs and taking 45 wickets.[12]
Having graduated from Oxford in 1877, he became a schoolteacher. He taught at the Golden Parsonage Preparatory School and at Elstree School, where he taught alongside Vernon Royle.[3] He later played minor counties cricket for Hertfordshire in 1900, making a single appearance in the Minor Counties Championship.[13] He died at Summertown in Oxford in March 1935. His brother, Edward, played Test cricket for England.