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Wyndham Hill-Smith

Wyndham Hill-Smith

Australian cricketer and winemaker


Wyndham Hill-Smith OBE (16 February 1909 – 25 October 1990) was an Australian cricketer and wine-maker.[1]

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Cricketer

The nephew of Australia captain Clem Hill, Hill-Smith was a left-handed batsman. He attended St Peter's College, Adelaide, playing in the college cricket team that toured Ceylon in January 1928.[2]

He played eight first-class matches for Western Australia and one for a representative Australian XI.[3] He made his first-class debut against the touring South Africans at the WACA Ground in 1932. Opening the batting, he made 56 runs before being dismissed by Xen Balaskas.[4]

Wine-maker

Following the death of his brother Sidney in the Kyeema aircraft crash in 1938, Hill-Smith returned to South Australia to take on the management of the family winery, Yalumba at Angaston.[5] He led the company from 1938 to 1986.[6] In 1980, Hill-Smith was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the wine industry and horse racing.[7]

A grandstand at Cheltenham Park Racecourse was named the Wyndham Hill Smith Grandstand.[8] His Wisden obituary concluded with the comment, "In later life he became famous for the liberal hospitality which he extended to touring teams at his Yalumba vineyard in South Australia."[9]


References

  1. "Wyndham Hill-Smith". cricketarchive.com.(subscription required)
  2. "St Peter's College, Adelaide in Ceylon 1927/28". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  3. "First-Class Matches played by Wyndham Hill-Smith". cricketarchive.com.(subscription required)
  4. "Yalumba - The first 100 Years". Nick's Wine Merchants. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
  5. "Robert Hill Smith: Yalumba". winetenquestions.com.au. 12 April 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  6. "Hill-Smith, Wyndham". It's an Honour. Australian Government. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
  7. Goers, Peter (30 July 2006). "Protest lodged". The Advertiser. Adelaide. Retrieved 16 December 2008.

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