Henry Tindall | |
Birth Date: | 4 February 1863 |
Birth Place: | Margate, Kent, England |
Death Date: | 10 June 1940 (aged 77) |
Death Place: | Peasmarsh, East Sussex, England |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | 440/880 yards |
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 first-class cricketer active 1893–95 who played for Kent. He was born in Margate and died in Peasmarsh.[1] [2]
Tindall was born in Margate, Kent, on 4 February 1863 and was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge; 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.
Tindall became the British quarter–mile champion after winning the AAA Championships title at the 1888 AAA Championships.[3] [4] In 1889, he successfully defended his quarter–mile title at the 1889 AAA Championships, recording 48.5 seconds, a world record that also stood as a British amateur record until 1911. At the 1889 championships, he also won the half–mile title.[5]
After university he played Rugby for Rosalyn Park and in cricket appeared for Kent 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 Iden.[6]