John Robert Tillard (26 May 1924 – 16 December 2019) was an English cricketer. Tillard was a right-handed batsman.
Early life
The younger son of Brigadier John Arthur Stuart Tillard (1889–1975), OBE, MC, of The Hooke, Chailey, Sussex, who served with the Royal Corps of Signals, and his wife Margaret Penelope, daughter of John Blencowe, of Chailey, Sussex, Tillard was born in Kensington, London in May 1924. Both parents were of landed gentry families, the Tillards being of The Holme, Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire.
Tillard was educated at Winchester College.
Military and cricket career
