The Reverend Henry Charles Lenox Tindall (4 February 1863 – 10 June 1940) was a British head master, priest and world-record-holding track athlete; he was also an English

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er active 1893–95 who played for

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. He was born in

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and died in

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.Henry Tindall
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-06-05. Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 529–530.
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at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.) Tindall was born in

, Kent, on 4 February 1863 and was educated at

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; while at university he ran and swam, and in 1884–1885 he was Cambridge quarter-mile champion. In 1886, he was president of the University Athletic Club, in the same year he won both the 100 yards and quarter-mile race against Oxford University. In 1888 he won the quarter-mile

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championship. In 1889 he won a quarter of a mile race in 48.5 seconds, a world record that also stood as a British amateur record until 1911. After university he played Rugby for Rosalyn Park and in cricket appeared for

from 1893 to 1895. In 1894 he appeared at a match in Hastings for the South of England against The Australians. Tindall was also a member of the Rye Golf Club from 1894 until is death. He left Cambridge with a second-class degree in the mathematics tripos and he had also been a Tancred Divinity Scholar. He became a mathematical master at Hurst Court School in Hastings, becoming the headmaster in 1905. In 1934 he left the school to become rector of

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