Bruce de la Coeur Hylton-Stewart (27 November 1891 – 1 October 1972) was a musician and schoolteacher who played

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for

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and

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between 1912 and 1914. Born at

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and brought up also in

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, where his father Charles Henry Hylton Stewart was a minor canon of Chester Cathedral. Hylton-Stewart was educated at Bath College, then went up to

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, with an organ scholarship. 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

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in 1912, when he replaced the injured

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after the game had started. 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

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at Stourbridge: these remained the best bowling figures of his first-class cricket career. 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

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at Park Avenue, Bradford. His batting improved as well, and he made his first score of more than 50, an unbeaten 72 against

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. 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

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at Leyton. And late in the season, he made 91 against Worcestershire at

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. During the

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Hylton-Stewart was commissioned in the

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and served with school Officers' Training Corps (OTC), first at The Leys School and then at Haileybury. He remained with the Haileybury OTC until 1929 when he resigned his commission. Hylton-Stewart did not return to first-class cricket after the First World War but played Minor Counties cricket for

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up to 1927. Hylton-Stewart taught at

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1934–54 and then was Director of Music and organist at St James's Church, Piccadilly, 1954–70. He died at

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Note on spelling

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 Charles Hylton Stewart (21 March 1884 – 14 November 1932) was an English cathedral organist, who served in Rochester Cathedral and St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. He also produced several compositions for organ, and a few for choir. Bac ...

(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. Bruce Hylton-Stewart's middle name is also, in some references, spelled as "Delacour".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hylton-Stewart, Bruce 1891 births 1972 deaths English cricketers Somerset cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Hertfordshire cricketers Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Officers' Training Corps officers British Army personnel of World War I Schoolteachers from Merseyside English organists British male organists 20th-century organists 20th-century British male musicians Sportspeople from Wallasey Cricketers from Cheshire