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'''Neil Stafford Hotchkin''' (4 February 1914 – 6 February 2004) was an English [[first-class cricket]]er active 1934–48 who played for [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] and [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex]]. He was born and died in [[Woodhall Spa]], [[Lincolnshire]], where his family had developed a golf course.<ref name=CA>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13743/13743.html Neil Hotchkin at CricketArchive]</ref>

==Sporting career==
Hotchkin was educated at [[Eton College]] and played in the [[Eton-Harrow match]] in 1931, 1932 and 1933. He then went to [[Cambridge University]] and opened the batting for [[Cambridge University Cricket Club]] in the 1935 [[The University Match (cricket)|University match]] against [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford]]. He played a handful of matches for Middlesex, the last in 1948, and some matches for the [[Europeans cricket team]] while stationed in [[British Raj|India]] during [[World War II]]. In 23 first-class matches he scored 736 runs at an average of 21.02.<ref>[http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/14343.html Hotchkin at ESPNcricinfo.]</ref>

His father, [[Stafford Hotchkin]], developed a golf course at the family home of [[Woodhall Spa#Woodhall Spa Manor|Woodhall Spa Manor]] in 1891. Neil Hotchkin was the [[English Golf Union]] (EGU) president in 1972. He was also President of The European Golf Association from 1989 to 1991. He sold the [[Woodhall Spa Golf Club]] to the EGU in 1995. The EGU relocated the National Golf Centre to Woodhall Spa, and the main course at the club was named the Hotchkin Course.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/2372831/Amateur-Golf-Hotchkin-leaves-rich-and-lasting-legacy.html Hotchkin obituary, ''Daily Telegraph'' 10 February 2004.]</ref>

==Military career==
Neil Hotchkin joined the part-time [[Territorial Army (United Kingdom)|Territorial Army]] in 1936, being commissioned as a [[Second lieutenant]] in the Lincoln Battery of [[1st Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers|60th (North Midland) Field Regiment]], [[Royal Artillery]] (RA), of which his father was at the time the [[Colonel#Colonel of the Regiment|Honorary Colonel]].<ref>''Army List''.</ref> During World War II he served with the RA in the [[Dunkirk Evacuation]], the Middle East, and in India. Then in late 1943 the 60th Field Regiment was converted to infantry and trained to join the [[Chindits]] in the Long Range Penetration (LRP) role. By now a [[Major (United Kingdom)|Major]], Hotchkin commanded an LRP Column formed by the 60th Field Regiment in the gruelling [[Naga Hills]] campaign in [[Burma Campaign|Burma]] during April–July 1944.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.burmastar.org.uk/stories/60-and-80-column-chindits-1944/ |title=Thomas Joesbury, '60 and 80 Column Chindits 1944' at Burma Star Association. |access-date=19 May 2018 |archive-date=20 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180520054815/https://www.burmastar.org.uk/stories/60-and-80-column-chindits-1944/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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