Cyril Stileman

{{Short description|English cricketer and engineer (1879 – 1943)}}

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Cyril Stileman

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Cyril George Stileman

| birth_date = 9 September 1879

| birth_place = Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1943|12|4|1879|9|9|df=yes}}

| death_place = Westminster, London, England

| nickname =

| family = Frederic Stileman (brother)

| batting = Unknown

| bowling =

| role =

| club1 = Europeans

| year1 = 1910/11–1921/22

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 13

| bat avg1 = 6.50

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 8

| deliveries1 = 192

| wickets1 = 4

| bowl avg1 = 28.35

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = 4/113

| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–

| date = 30 December

| year = 2023

| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/cyril-stileman-34457 Cricinfo

}}

Cyril George Stileman (9 September 1879 – 4 December 1943) was an English first-class cricketer and civil engineer.

The son of the civil engineer Francis Stileman, he was born at Barrow-in-Furness in September 1879. He was educated at The Abbey School in Beckenham and Burney's Academy in Gosport.{{cite book|title=Indian and Pakistan Year Book and Who's who|date=1928|publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Company|location=Mumbai|page=895|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-acSAAAAIAAJ|language=en}} He was a pupil with his father from 1899 to 1903, assisting him with the construction of railways and docks with the Furness Railway. He went to British India in 1903, where he was an assistant engineer with the Bombay Port Trust until 1910. From 1910 to 1918, he was the Port Trust's executive engineer, later becoming its deputy chief engineer for construction. Stileman was later employed by Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners, where was head of their Bombay office by 1926.{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005049/19260601/076/0003|title=Colorado & Coronach|work=London Daily Chronicle|page=3|date=1 June 1926|access-date=30 December 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}}

Whilst in India, Stileman made one appearance in first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team against the Parsees at Poona in the 1905–06 Bombay Presidency Match.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14645/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Cyril Stileman|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=30 December 2023|url-access=subscription}} Playing in the side as a bowler, he took figures of 4 for 113 in the Parsees first innings. Batting twice, he was dismissed in the Europeans first innings for 5 runs by K. B. Mistry, while following-on in their second innings, he was dismissed for 8 runs by the same bowler.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/6/6907.html|title=Europeans v Parsees, Bombay Presidency Match 1905/06|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=30 December 2023|url-access=subscription}} Prior to his move to India, Stileman played club cricket for Barrow Cricket Club,{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000711/19020809/070/0003|title=Barrow v Ulverston|work=Lancashire Evening Post|location=Preston|page=3|date=9 August 1902|access-date=30 December 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}} in addition to playing field hockey for Lancashire.{{cite news|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000711/19030221/114/0004|title=Hockey|work=Lancashire Evening Post|location=Preston|page=4|date=21 February 1903|access-date=30 December 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}} Stileman later retired to England, where he died at Westminster in December 1943. His brother, Frederic, was also a first-class cricketer for the Europeans. The cricketer and sailor Charles Evan-Thomas was his brother-in-law.