14 Facts About Edward Tylecote

Edward Ferdinando Sutton Tylecote was an English cricketer.

Edward Tylecote was born in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire and was educated at Clifton College and played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Kent County Cricket Club.

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 Clifton College for the Classicals against the Moderns.

The Moderns batted first, scoring 100, with Edward Tylecote taking three wickets.

Edward Tylecote 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.

Edward Tylecote's innings covered three afternoons and six hours as he amassed 404 not out: the first known quadruple century in a cricket match.

Edward 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.

Edward Tylecote was a good all-round sportsman at school, winning a number of athletics competitions whilst at Clifton.

Edward Tylecote went on to Oxford University, winning his Blue in 1869,1870,1871 and 1872.

Edward Tylecote was captain in the last two of those years.

Edward Tylecote went on to play for Kent in 1875, and he continued to play for them to 1883.

Edward Tylecote played some cricket for his home county of Bedfordshire, which is not a first-class county, from 1870 to 1877.

Outside of cricket Edward Tylecote taught mathematics at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich from 1875 to 1895, as well as teaching in some preparatory schools.

Edward Tylecote's hobbies included collecting butterflies, and he left his collection to a museum in Oxford.