Elliot Dowell Tillard (22 July 1880 – 19 February 1967) was a British officer who played first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team in India and for Somerset.
A middle- or lower-order batsman and a fairly regular though usually not front-line bowler, Tillard's batting and bowling styles are not known.
[3] Tillard's final match for Somerset was in late July 1912; less than a month later, he was playing first-class cricket in Pune again, and in the second of two matches at the end of August 1912, and having previously taken only one first-class wicket, he took six for 40 playing for J. G. Greig's XI against the Hindus cricket team, the best bowling performance of his first-class career.
[4] Tillard then appeared in only one further first-class cricket match: just over 10 years later, he played in the Bombay Quadrangular tournament for the Europeans against the Parsees cricket team and took five for 71 in the Parsees' second innings, and scored 34, his highest in India, in the Europeans' second innings.
Tillard's father Charles Tillard played for Cambridge University and Surrey; his grandfather Edward Dowell played for Cambridge University.