Bruce Hylton-Stewart

Bruce Hylton-Stewart

Personal information
Full name	Bruce de la Coeur Hylton-Stewart
Born	27 November 1891 New Brighton, Cheshire, England
Died	1 October 1972 (aged 80) Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Bowling style	Right-arm fast-medium
Role	All-rounder
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1912-14	Somerset
First-class debut	17 June 1912 Somerset v South Africans
Last First-class	1 September 1914 Somerset v Essex
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 36 Runs scored 1003 Batting average 17.59 100s/50s 1/2 Top score 110 Balls bowled 2805 Wickets 58 Bowling average 28.70 5 wickets in innings 2 10 wickets in match - Best bowling 5-3 Catches/stumpings 17/-
Source: CricketArchive, 9 November 2008

Bruce de la Coeur Hylton-Stewart (27 November 1891 – 1 October 1972) played first-class cricket for Somerset and Cambridge University between 1912 and 1914.

Born at New Brighton and brought up also in Cheshire, where his father Charles Henry Hylton Stewart was a minor canon of Chester Cathedral.^[1] Hylton-Stewart was educated at Bath College.^[2] He was a right-handed lower or middle order batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler.

He first appeared in first-class cricket in the Somerset match against the South Africans in 1912, when he replaced the injured Harry Chidgey after the game had started.^[3] Two weeks later, he made his only appearance of the 1912 season for Cambridge University, and then from mid-July appeared fairly regularly for Somerset for the rest of the season. His batting was not successful, but he had one sensational day as a bowler, taking five wickets for three runs in 14 balls against Worcestershire at Stourbridge: these remained the best bowling figures of his first-class cricket career.^[4]

In 1913, Hylton-Stewart played 11 first-class matches, most of them in the second half of the season and all of them for Somerset. He took five wickets in an innings for a second time, this time five for 72 against Yorkshire at Park Avenue, Bradford.^[5] His batting improved as well, and he made his first score of more than 50, an unbeaten 72 against Sussex at Bath.^[6]

The 1914 season was Hylton-Stewart's most successful as a batsman – he made 520 runs at an average of 20.80 per innings. After two matches for Cambridge in mid-season, he again played most of Somerset's matches in the second half of the year. Batting now in the middle order, he made his only first-class century, 110, made in 105 minutes out of an innings of 220, against Essex at Leyton.^[7] And late in the season, he made 91 against Worcestershire at Taunton.^[8]

Hylton-Stewart did not return to first-class cricket after the First World War but played Minor Counties cricket for Hertfordshire up to 1927. He died at Marlborough, Wiltshire.

Note on spelling

Hylton-Stewart's surname is written without a hyphen in some non-cricketing references, regularly with a hyphen in cricketing references. Both his father and his older brother, Charles Hylton Stewart (1884–1932), who achieved fame as a composer of church music including settings for Psalms and as the organist at Rochester and Chester Cathedrals and at St George's Chapel, Windsor, are generally written without a hyphen.^[1]

Bruce Hylton-Stewart's middle name is also, in some references, spelled as "Delacour".^[1][2]

References

1. "Person Page 4740". www.thePeerage.com. Retrieved 2008-11-09.
2. "Obituaries, 1972". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1973 ed.). Wisden. p. 1009.
3. "Somerset v South Africans". www.cricketarchive.com. 1912-06-17. Retrieved 2008-11-09.
4. "Worcestershire v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 1912-08-19. Retrieved 2008-11-09.
5. "Yorkshire v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 1913-06-30. Retrieved 2008-11-09.
6. "Somerset v Sussex". www.cricketarchive.com. 1913-07-31. Retrieved 2008-11-09.
7. "Essex v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 1914-07-20. Retrieved 2008-11-09.
8. "Somerset v Worcestershire". www.cricketarchive.com. 1914-08-13. Retrieved 2008-11-09.