Sholto Marcon
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1920 Antwerp | Team competition |
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.[3] Following the war he became a schoolmaster at Cranleigh. 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]
At Lancing, Marcon played in the cricket 1st XI in 1907–1908. He was a University of Oxford field hockey blue in 1910, 1911, 1912, and 1913, in his final year captaining the team, and went on to play hockey for England, gaining twenty-three caps.[2] Representing Great Britain in the 1920 Summer Olympics he won a gold medal.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sholto Marcon". Olympedia. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
- ^ a b c d Sholto Marcon at cricketarchive.com, accessed 20 December 2011
- ^ London Gazette dated 23 November 1914 (Supplement), p. 9675
- ^ London Gazette dated 22 February 1944 (Supplement), p. 899
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- British male field hockey players
- Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain
- 20th-century English Anglican priests
- English Olympic medallists
- Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry officers
- Royal Air Force squadron leaders
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- Field hockey players at the 1920 Summer Olympics
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- Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics