Edward Ferdinando Sutton Tylecote (23 June 1849 – 15 March 1938) was an English

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er. He was born in

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and was educated at

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Oakley EM (ed) (1890) ''Clifton College Register'', pp. 14–15. London: Rivingtons.
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and

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. He also played six

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. His career lasted from 1869 to 1886.Edward Tylecote
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Highest innings record

When he was 19, Tylecote set the then record for the highest score made in a cricket match when playing in a school match at

for the Classicals against the Moderns. The Moderns batted first, scoring 100, with Tylecote taking three wickets. He then opened for the Classicals, and although this was a one-innings match, the game was continued until all the Classical players had an innings. Tylecote's innings covered three afternoons and six hours as he amassed 404 not out: the first known quadruple century in a cricket match.Wilson JM (1890) ''The Annals of Clifton College, 1862–1887'', pp.92–95, in Oakley, ''

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''.
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Retrieved 2021-04-26. The next highest score was 52. Tylecote scored one seven, five fives, 21 fours, 39 threes, 42 twos and 87 ones, all of which were run except for one four hit out of the ground. The record has since been exceeded – by another Clifton College schoolboy AEJ Collins – who scored 628 not out. Tylecote was a good all-round sportsman at school, winning a number of athletics competitions whilst at Clifton.Wilson, p.100.

Oxford University, Kent and England

Tylecote went on to Oxford University, winning his Blue in 1869, 1870, 1871 and 1872. He was captain in the last two of those years. He went on to play for Kent in 1875, and he continued to play for them to 1883. Tylecote also played some cricket for his home county of Bedfordshire, which is not a first-class county, from 1870 to 1877. He was a member of the Honourable

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's team to

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to recover

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in 1882/3. A fully representative England side had lost to Australia at home for the first time in 1882, after which a mock obituary to English cricket had appeared in ''

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''. The joke at the time was that Bligh's tour was going over to Australia to recover the ashes. This he succeeded in doing, by beating the team that had beaten England two-one, and afterwards Bligh was presented with an urn with ashes in it by some Melburnian ladies as a memento. A poem was attached to the urn, which memorialises Tylecote's contribution, along with the contributions of a number of his teammates: :''When

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goes back with the urn, the urn;'' :'' Studds,

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and Tylecote return, return;'' :''The welkin will ring loud,'' :''The great crowd will feel proud,'' :''Seeing Barlow and

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with the urn, the urn;'' :''And the rest coming home with the urn.''

Career outside cricket

Outside of cricket Tylecote taught mathematics at the Royal Military Academy in

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from 1875 to 1895, as well as teaching in some preparatory schools. His hobbies included collecting butterflies, and he left his collection to a museum in Oxford. He died in

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, in 1938.

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