Sholto Marcon

Charles Sholto Wyndham Marcon (31 March 1890 – 17 November 1959), known as Sholto Marcon, was a Church of England schoolmaster, clergyman and international field hockey player.

[1] Born at Headington, Oxfordshire, the only son of Charles Abdy Marcon and his wife Sophia Wyndham Winter, Marcon was educated at Lancing and at Oriel College, Oxford.

[2] On 14 September 1914, only a few days after the outset of the First World War, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

He was a Royal Air Force chaplain from 1943 to 1945, with the rank of Squadron Leader,[4] and ended his career as Vicar of Tenterden in Kent, where he died on 17 November 1959.

[2] Representing Great Britain in the 1920 Summer Olympics he won a gold medal.