Sholto Marcon
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
31 March 1890 Headington, Oxford, England | ||
| Died |
17 November 1959 (aged 69) Tenterden, England | ||
| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1912–1920 | Oxton | ||
| ?–1927 | Hampstead & Westminster | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals |
| England | |||
| GB | |||
Medal record | |||
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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]
Biography
Born at Headington, Oxford, 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]
At the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, he represented Great Britain at the hockey tournament.[5]
After playing club hockey for Oxton he played for Hampstead & Westminster.[6]
References
- ^ "Sholto Marcon". Olympedia. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
- ^ a b c 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
- ^ "Olympic Hockey". Birmingham Daily Gazette. 31 July 1920. Retrieved 25 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Hockey International". Belfast News-Letter. 2 April 1927. Retrieved 25 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
