Henry Tindall
The Reverend Henry Charles Lenox Tindall (4 February 1863 – 10 June 1940) was a British Head Master, Priest and world record holding track athlete, he also played English first-class cricketer active 1893–95 who played for Kent. He was born in Margate; died in Peasmarsh.[1]
Tindall was born in Margate, Kent on 4 February 1863 and was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, while at University he ran and swam and in 1884-85 he was Cambridge quarter mile champion.[2] In 1886, he was President of the University Athletic Club, in the same year he won both the 100 yards and quarter mile race against Oxford University.[2] In 1888 he won the quarter mile Amateur Athletic Association championship.[2]
In 1889 he won a quarter of a mile race in 48.5 seconds, a world record that also stood as a British amateur record until 1911.[2] After University he played Rugby for Rosalyn Park and in cricket appeared for Kent from 1893-95.[2] In 1894 he appeared at a match in Hastings for the South of England against The Australians. Tindall was also a member of the Rye Golf Club from 1894 until is death.[2]
He left Cambridge with a second-class degree in the mathematics tripos and he had also been a Tancred Divinity Scholar.[2] He became a mathematical master at Hurst Court School in Hastings becoming the headmaster in 1905.[2] In 1934 he left the school to become rector of Iden.[2]