| Country: | England |
| Fullname: | Horatio Samuel Hildyard |
| Birth Date: | 17 October 1805 |
| Birth Place: | Winestead, Yorkshire, England |
| Death Place: | Loftus, Yorkshire, England |
| Batting: | Unknown |
| Club1: | Oxford University |
| Year1: | 1832 |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 2 |
| Runs1: | 10 |
| Bat Avg1: | 2.50 |
| 100S/50S1: | –/– |
| Top Score1: | 4 |
| Hidedeliveries: | true |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | –/– |
| Date: | 9 May |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/15236.html Cricinfo |
Horatio Samuel Hildyard (17 October 1805 – 10 April 1886) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.
The sixth son of the Rev. William Hildyard, he was born in October 1805 at Winestead, Yorkshire.[1] He was educated at Shrewsbury School,[2] before going up to Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1826. He was elected a fellow in 1831,[1] and while he was a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford, Hildyard played two first-class cricket matches for Oxford University in 1832, both against the Marylebone Cricket Club.[3]
Hildyard took holy orders in the Church of England and was ordained in June 1832 as a priest at Rochester, a post he held for just under a year until he was transferred to Carlisle in 1833. He became the curate of Little Wilbraham in Cambridgeshire from 1834–42, during which time he was also a classics lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He became a rector at Loftus in North Yorkshire from 1842 until his death there in April 1886.[1] On 12 June 1861 he married Octavia Richardson, daughter of William Richardson, Lord Mayor of York in 1847. They had 3 sons and 4 daughters. His brother was the scholar James Hildyard.[4]