Bruce de la Coeur Hylton-Stewart (27 November 1891 – 1 October 1972) was a musician and schoolteacher who played first-class cricket for Somerset and Cambridge University between 1912 and 1914.
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| Full name | Bruce de la Coeur Hylton-Stewart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1891-11-27)27 November 1891 New Brighton, Cheshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 1 October 1972(1972-10-01) (aged 80) Marlborough, Wiltshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1912-14 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 17 June 1912 Somerset v South Africans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 1 September 1914 Somerset v Essex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 9 November 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born at New Brighton and brought up also in Cheshire, where his father Charles Henry Hylton Stewart was a minor canon of Chester Cathedral.[1] Hylton-Stewart was educated at Bath College,[2] then went up to Peterhouse, Cambridge, with an organ scholarship.[3] He was a right-handed lower or middle order batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler.
He first appeared in first-class cricket in the Somerset match against the South Africans in 1912, when he replaced the injured Harry Chidgey after the game had started.[4] Two weeks later, he made his only appearance of the 1912 season for Cambridge University, and then from mid-July appeared fairly regularly for Somerset for the rest of the season. His batting was not successful, but he had one sensational day as a bowler, taking five wickets for three runs in 14 balls against Worcestershire at Stourbridge: these remained the best bowling figures of his first-class cricket career.[5]
In 1913, Hylton-Stewart played 11 first-class matches, most of them in the second half of the season and all of them for Somerset. He took five wickets in an innings for a second time, this time five for 72 against Yorkshire at Park Avenue, Bradford.[6] His batting improved as well, and he made his first score of more than 50, an unbeaten 72 against Sussex at Bath.[7]
The 1914 season was Hylton-Stewart's most successful as a batsman – he made 520 runs at an average of 20.80 per innings. After two matches for Cambridge in mid-season, he again played most of Somerset's matches in the second half of the year. Batting now in the middle order, he made his only first-class century, 110, made in 105 minutes out of an innings of 220, against Essex at Leyton.[8] And late in the season, he made 91 against Worcestershire at Taunton.[9]
During the First World War Hylton-Stewart was commissioned in the British Army and served with school Officers' Training Corps (OTC), first at The Leys School and then at Haileybury.[10] He remained with the Haileybury OTC until 1929 when he resigned his commission.[11]
Hylton-Stewart did not return to first-class cricket after the First World War but played Minor Counties cricket for Hertfordshire up to 1927.
Hylton-Stewart taught at Marlborough College 1934–54 and then was Director of Music and organist at St James's Church, Piccadilly, 1954–70.[12] He died at Marlborough.
Hylton-Stewart's surname is written without a hyphen in some non-cricketing references, regularly with a hyphen in cricketing references. Both his father and his older brother, Charles Hylton Stewart (1884–1932), who achieved fame as a composer of church music including settings for Psalms and as the organist at Rochester and Chester Cathedrals and at St George's Chapel, Windsor, are generally written without a hyphen.[1]
Bruce Hylton-Stewart's middle name is also, in some references, spelled as "Delacour".[1][2]