Frederick Hill (cricketer)

Frederick Henry Hill (29 November 1847 – 28 July 1913) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.

[5] In addition to playing first-class cricket for Oxford, he also made a single appearance for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Cambridge University at Fenner's in 1871,[3] top-scoring with 59 runs in the MCC second innings.

[6] After graduating from Oxford, Hill was briefly employed as an assistant master at Bromsgrove School, before taking holy orders in the Church of England in 1873.

His first ecclesiastical post was as curate of Hawkchurch, Devon in 1873, before becoming an acting chaplain at Riga in 1875, then in the Russian Empire.

By 1878, he was the domestic chaplain to the Earl of Zetland, a position he held until he became the vicar of Redcar in 1885.