Basil Hitchcock

Lieutenant General Sir Basil Ferguson Burnett Hitchcock, KCB, DSO (3 March 1877 – 23 November 1938) was a British Army officer and first-class cricketer.

Basil Hitchcock
Born(1877-03-03)3 March 1877
Chatham, Kent, Kent, England
Died23 November 1938(1938-11-23) (aged 61)
Westminster, London, England
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
RankLieutenant General
Commands held55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division
Deccan District
Battles/warsSecond Boer War
First World War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Distinguished Service Order
Personal information
RelationsJames Robertson (Father-in-law)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1896Hampshire
Career statistics
Competition FC
Matches 2
Runs scored 33
Batting average 11.00
100s/50s –/–
Top score 21
Balls bowled –
Wickets –
Bowling average –
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling –
Catches/stumpings –/–
Source: Cricinfo, 22 January 2010

Early life

Hitchcock was the elder son of Colonel Burnett Hitchcock, of Weeke Manor, Winchester.[1] Educated at Harrow School, he made two first-class appearances for Hampshire in the 1896 County Championship against Derbyshire and Yorkshire.[2][3]

Military career

Hitchcock was commissioned into the British Army as a second lieutenant in the Sherwood Foresters on 20 February 1897, promoted to lieutenant on 12 April 1898, and to captain on 12 March 1901.[4] After serving in South Africa during the Second Boer War, he was deployed with his regiment to France with the British Expeditionary Force and, for rallying the troops at Hancourt, was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order.[5] He became Director of Mobilization at the War Office in 1917, Major-General, Administration at Aldershot Command in November 1921 and General Officer Commanding 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division in July 1926.[6] He went on to be General Officer Commanding Deccan District in India in October 1928 before retiring in December 1930.[6]

Hitchcock died at Westminster, London on 23 November 1938.[3]

Family

Hitchcock married at St Margaret's, Westminster, on 22 October 1902 Anne Austin Robertson-Walker, daughter of J. Robertson-Walker, of Gilgarran, Cumberland.[1] His father-in-law James Robertson played first-class cricket for Middlesex and the Marylebone Cricket Club.[7]

gollark: "Search packages" is `pacman -Ss [whatever]`, "install" is `pacman -S [whatever]`, "update repos and update all packages" (it is apparently unsafe to update only individual packages) is `pacman -Syu`.
gollark: You pick a "subcommand" with a capital-letter flag like `-S` (sync, which seems to be a fancy word for "Install packages"), `-Q` (query information aboud stuff) and then pass extra flags to configure how that works.
gollark: > what's a pacman-like CLI?Arch Linux (btw I use that) has a neat package manager called `pacman`.> what counts as package updating support?Updating packages without breaking things horribly, including not overwriting user-edited (config) files.> and library interface as in an API you can use from scripts?Precisely.
gollark: Oh, and a library interface.
gollark: Well, I would want a pacman-like CLI, probably configurable repos, multiple files in a package, good package updating support, and... other stuff?

References
  1. "Marriages". The Times (36907). London. 24 October 1902. p. 1.
  2. "Basil Hitchcock". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  3. "Basil Hitchcock". Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  4. Hart′s Army list, 1903
  5. "No. 29001". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 December 1914. p. 10547.
  6. "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  7. "James Robertson". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
Military offices
Preceded by
Hugo de Pree		 GOC 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division
1926–1928		 Succeeded by
Harold Higginson
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