| Country: | England |
| Fullname: | John Thornhill |
| Birth Date: | 14 July 1815 |
| Birth Place: | Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire, England |
| Death Place: | Boxworth, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Family: | Charles Thornhill (brother) George Thornhill (brother) |
| Batting: | Unknown |
| Club1: | Marylebone Cricket Club |
| Year1: | 1840 - 1842 |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 2 |
| Runs1: | 19 |
| Bat Avg1: | 6.33 |
| 100S/50S1: | –/– |
| Top Score1: | 8 |
| Hidedeliveries: | true |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | –/– |
| Date: | 11 May |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22073.html Cricinfo |
John Thornhill (14 July 1815 – 28 January 1875) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.
The son of the politician George Thornhill, he was born in July 1815 at Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire. He was educated at Rugby School,[1] before going up to St John's College, Cambridge.[2] After graduating from Cambridge, he took holy orders in the Anglican Church, being ordained as a deacon at Durham Cathedral in 1838. His first ecclesiastical post was at Boxworth in Cambridgeshire, where he was appointed reverend in 1839.[2] Thornhill was from a cricketing family, with his brothers Charles and George both playing first-class cricket. Thornhill himself played two first-class matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club, both against Cambridge University at Cambridge in 1840 and 1842.[3] He scored 19 runs in his two matches, with a highest score of 8.[4] From 1850 he was concurrently the reverend of Childerley, a hamlet to the south of Boxworth.[2] Thornhill was also a justice of the peace for Cambridgeshire. He died at Boxworth in January 1875.[5]