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{{Short description|English cricketer and financier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2017}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| honorific_prefix = [[Sir]]
| name = Wilfred Hill-Wood
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|size=100%|country=GBR|KCVO|CBE}}
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Wilfred William Hill Hill-Wood
| height =
| nickname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1901|9|8|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Chelsea, London]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1980|10|10|1901|9|8|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Kensington]], London, England
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Leg-break
| role =
| family = {{ubl|[[Sir Samuel Hill-Wood, 1st Baronet|Samuel Hill-Wood]] (father)|[[Sir Basil Hill-Wood, 2nd Baronet|Basil Hill-Wood]] (brother)|[[Denis Hill-Wood]] (brother)|[[Charles Hill-Wood]] (brother)}}
| club1 = [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club|Derbyshire]]
| year1 = {{nowrap|1919–1936}}
| club2 = [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]]
| year2 = 1921–1922
| club3 = [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]]
| year3 = 1938–1939
| type1 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
| debutdate1 = 8 August
| debutyear1 = 1919
| debutfor1 = Derbyshire
| debutagainst1 = [[Northamptonshire County Cricket Club|Northamptonshire]]
| lastdate1 = 28 June
| lastyear1 = 1939
| lastfor1 = MCC
| lastagainst1 = [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford Univ.]]
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 63
| runs1 = 2,848
| bat avg1 = 27.65
| 100s/50s1 = 3/15
| top score1 = 122[[not out|*]]
| deliveries1 = 3,679
| wickets1 = 65
| bowl avg1 = 34.41
| fivefor1 = 1
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 5/62
| catches/stumpings1= 35/–
| date = 14 July
| year = 2010
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13696/13696.html CricketArchive
}}

'''Sir Wilfred William Hill Hill-Wood''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCVO|CBE}} (8 September 1901 – 10 October 1980) was an English financier and [[cricket]]er who played first-class cricket for [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club|Derbyshire]] between 1919 and 1936, as well as for [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] and [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC).

==Early life==
Hill-Wood was the second son of [[Sir Samuel Hill-Wood, 1st Baronet]], and his wife Hon. Rachel Bateman-Hanbury. His father was a Member of Parliament and had also played cricket for Derbyshire. He was educated at [[Ludgrove School|Ludgrove]] and [[Eton College|Eton]], where he played for the first XI, appearing in the [[Eton-Harrow match]] in 1918, 1919 and 1920.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barber |first1=Richard |title=The Story of Ludgrove |date=2004 |publisher=Guidon Publishing |location=Oxford |isbn=0-9543617-2-5 |page=261}}</ref> He then went to [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].

==Cricketing career==
Hill-Wood made his debut for Derbyshire in the [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1919|1919 season]] when he took 2 wickets and scored a total of 49 in two innings against [[Northamptonshire County Cricket Club|Northamptonshire]]. He played two more games in 1919 and next played one game for Derbyshire in the [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1921|1921 season]]. In 1921 and 1922 he was playing for [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]]. He took part in a [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC) tour of New Zealand in 1922/23 and was a regular in the Derbyshire side in the [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1923|1923 season]]

Towards the end of the season, he was the subject of an article by [[Neville Cardus]] in the Guardian:

“The contrast between Hill-Wood’s strokes as they flashed from his bat and the ugliness of his stance as the bowler ran to the crease was intriguing. Surely so much of radiance, never before went hand-in-hand, with sheer distortion on the cricket field, as when Hill-Wood plays a long innings. As he awaits the ball, he is in an attitude, both angular and flat; he is “cut in two”, so to say, by a bend in the body that gives us a lively suggestion of a right-angle come to life. Even as the ball passes through the air towards him, Hill-Wood's body remains cramped and unlovely, his bat making a spasmodic up-and-down movement. Then if at the last second, the ball turns out right for hitting, Hill-Wood suffers a sudden transformation-quick as thought his body throws off its cramping angles, and becomes erect while the bat accomplishes the stroke. It all happens as though, suddenly, Hill-Wood had broken free from chains; the transformation, indeed, might well suggest a livelier metaphor-that the batsmen emerges at the critical moment in his own useful and confident image after casting away a magic cap or [[Tarnhelm]] that has been disguising his true shape in the shape of crabbed age.”<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cardus |first=Neville |date=27 August 1923 |title=Derbyshire at Old Trafford |work=The Manchester Guardian |pages=3}}</ref>

He played two matches for Derbyshire in the [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1924|1924 season]] and five for them in the [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1925|1925 season]] in which years he also played for the Eton Ramblers. In 1932/33 he played during a tour of India, and performed again for Derbyshire in the [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1935|1935]] and [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1936|1936]] seasons. His last matches were in 1938 and 1939 for the MCC against the universities. Hill-Wood was a right hand batsman and played 60 innings for Derbyshire in 35 matches. His top score was 107 and his average 25.74. He played 21 innings in 14 matches for Cambridge University with a top score of 81. He was a leg-break bowler and took 49 wickets at an average 31.08 for Derbyshire. He took 14 wickets at an average of 28.85 for Cambridge University. His best overall match count was 5 for 62.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13696/13696.html Wilfred Hill-Wood at Cricket Archive]</ref>

==Financial career==
Hill-Wood was managing director of [[Morgan, Grenfell & Co.]] 1939–67, and during the Second World War was with the [[British Purchasing Commission]].<ref>[http://www.ourstory.info/library/4-ww2/Hank.html Herman Harjees with the Morgan Bank]</ref> He was Chairman of Eversholt Estate Development and vice-president of St Pancras Housing Association.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sph.org.uk/downloads/housing/hillwood-house-and-st-richards-house-nw1.doc |title=Hillwood House St Pancras Tenants Association |access-date=18 August 2013 |archive-date=11 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011141943/http://www.sph.org.uk/downloads/housing/hillwood-house-and-st-richards-house-nw1.doc |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>

He was appointed a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the [[1946 New Year Honours]] for his work as Director, Western Area, Postal and Telegraph Censorship Department.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37407|date=1 January 1946|page=52}}</ref> He was a personal friend of [[King George VI]] and advised the royal family on financial affairs.<ref>{{cite newspaper The Times |title=Sir Wilfred Hill-Wood|date=16 October 1980 |page=14 |issue=60751}}</ref> He was knighted in the [[1976 Birthday Honours]] as a [[Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order]] (KCVO), an order in the personal gift of [[Elizabeth II|The Queen]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=46919|date=12 June 1976|page=8018|supp=y}}</ref>

==Family==
As well as his father, Hill-Wood's brothers [[Sir Basil Hill-Wood, 2nd Baronet|Basil]], [[Denis Hill-Wood|Denis]] and [[Charles Hill-Wood|Charles]] played cricket for Derbyshire.

==References==
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