Henry Tindall
British headmaster, priest, and athlete
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Biography
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 1884–1885 he was Cambridge quarter-mile champion.[3] 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.[3]
Tindall became the British quarter–mile champion after winning the AAA Championships title at the 1888 AAA Championships.[4][5] In 1889, he successfully defended his quarter–mile title at the 1889 AAA Championships, recording 48.5 seconds, a world record that also stood as a British amateur record until 1911.[3] At the 1889 championships, he also won the half–mile title.[6]
After university he played Rugby for Rosalyn Park and in cricket appeared for Kent from 1893 to 1895.[3] 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.[3]
He left Cambridge with a second-class degree in the mathematics tripos and he had also been a Tancred Divinity Scholar.[3] He became a mathematical master at Hurst Court School in Hastings, becoming the headmaster in 1905.[3] In 1934 he left the school to become rector of Iden.[3]