John Thornhill JP (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.