George Lacy Hillier

George Lacy Hillier (6 June 1856 in Sydenham- 11 February 1941 in London)[1] was an English racing cyclist, a pioneer of British cycling, and an excellent all-around athlete.

In 1885 he traveled to Leipzig, won a ten kilometre race against the German champion John Pundt, and set a new record on the track.

[4] Hillier wrote several books including the 500 page Cycling for the Badminton Library with William Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle, in 1887.

[5] In the 1892 Cyclist annual and yearbook Hillier set out a history of the cycling Hour record in which he identified Frederick Lindley Dodds of Stockton-on-Tees, who was then a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, as having set the first Hour record, on March 25, 1876, stating that "Dodds probably covered 15 miles and about 1,480 yards in the hour.

"[6] Later Hillier continued to work as a writer and journalist, as well as on the London Stock Exchange, like his father before him.