Sholto Marcon

Sholto Marcon
Personal information
Born31 March 1890
Headington, Oxford, England
Died17 November 1959 (aged 69)
Tenterden, England
Sport
SportField hockey
Senior career
Years Team Caps Goals
1912–1920 Oxton - -
?–1927 Hampstead & Westminster - -
National team
Years Team Caps Goals
– England -
– GB -
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Gold medal – first place1920 AntwerpTeam 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]

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 for England, earning 23 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

  1. ↑ "Sholto Marcon". Olympedia. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Sholto Marcon at cricketarchive.com, accessed 20 December 2011
  3. ↑ London Gazette dated 23 November 1914 (Supplement), p. 9675
  4. ↑ London Gazette dated 22 February 1944 (Supplement), p. 899
  5. ↑ "Olympic Hockey". Birmingham Daily Gazette. 31 July 1920. Retrieved 25 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "Hockey International". Belfast News-Letter. 2 April 1927. Retrieved 25 July 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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