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{{Short description|English cricketer (1880–1967)}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Elliot Tillard
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Elliot Dowell Tillard
| height =
| nickname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1880|7|22|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Cheltenham]], Gloucestershire, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1967|2|19|1880|7|22|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Flexbury]], [[Bude]], Cornwall, England
| batting =
| bowling =
| role = All-rounder
| family =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = {{nowrap|1907/08–1922/23}}
| club2 = [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]]
| year2 = 1912
| type1 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
| debutdate1 = 12 September
| debutyear1 = 1907
| debutfor1 = Europeans
| debutagainst1 = [[Parsees cricket team|Parsees]]
| lastdate1 = 13 September
| lastyear1 = 1922
| lastfor1 = Europeans
| lastagainst1 = Parsees
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 16
| runs1 = 357
| bat avg1 = 12.31
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 39
| deliveries1 = 419
| wickets1 = 14
| bowl avg1 = 15.78
| fivefor1 = 2
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 6/40
| catches/stumpings1 = 3/–
| date = 15 January
| year = 2011
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3853/3853.html CricketArchive
}}

'''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 County Cricket Club|Somerset]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3853/3853.html| title = Elliot Tillard |publisher=www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 13 January 2011}}</ref>

==Early life and military career==
Tillard was born at [[Cheltenham]], Gloucestershire, in 1880. He joined the [[Royal Engineers]] as a [[second lieutenant]] on 20 August 1899, and was promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] on 1 April 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette| issue=27433 |page=3178 |date=13 May 1902}}</ref> In late 1902 he was stationed in [[British Raj|India]].

He died at [[Flexbury]], [[Bude]], Cornwall, in 1967.

==Cricket==
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. His first appearances in first-class cricket were for the Europeans team in the Bombay Presidency matches at [[Pune]] and the [[Bombay Triangular]] competition. In 1912, he was in England for the cricket season and played nine times for Somerset, playing as a batsman. His highest score in these matches (and his highest in first-class cricket) came in the match against [[Gloucestershire County Cricket Club|Gloucestershire]] at [[County Ground, Taunton|Taunton]], when he made 39 in the first innings and followed with 29 in the second.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8681.html| title = Scorecard: Somerset v Gloucestershire | date = 27 May 1912 |publisher=www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 14 January 2011}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8886.html| title = Scorecard: JG Greig's XI v Hindus| date = 29 August 1912 |publisher=www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 14 January 2011}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10641.html| title = Scorecard: Europeans v Parsees | date = 11 September 1922 |publisher=www.cricketarchive.com | access-date = 14 January 2011}}</ref> As late as 1927, when he was 47, he was playing in non-first-class matches in what is now [[Pakistan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3853/Other_matches.html |title=Other matches played by Elliot Tillard |publisher=www.cricketarchive.com |access-date=14 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107014343/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3853/Other_matches.html |archivedate=7 November 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref>

==Family==
Several of Tillard's family played first-class cricket. Tillard's father [[Charles Tillard]] played for [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] and [[Surrey County Cricket Club|Surrey]]; his grandfather [[Edward Dowell]] played for Cambridge University. An uncle [[Avison Scott|Avison Terry Scott]] played for both Cambridge University and [[Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club|Cambridgeshire]] in first-class matches; Scott's son [[George Arbuthnot Scott]] played for Cambridge University, while a second son (Tillard's cousin) [[Arthur Avison Scott]] played one first-class match for the [[Royal Navy cricket team]].

==References==
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[[Category:1880 births]]
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[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Somerset cricketers]]
[[Category:Royal Engineers officers]]
[[Category:British people in British India]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Cheltenham]]

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