Henry de Winton

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Henry de Winton (7 November 1823 – 7 April 1895) was Archdeacon of Brecon from 1875{{cite journal |title=Obituary |page=8 |date=1895-04-11 |journal=Yorkshire Post |location=Leeds}} untilCrockford's Clerical Directory1895 p333:London, Horace Cox, 1885 1895.

De Winton was born Henry Wilkins in Hay-on-Wye,{{cite archive |item = Baptismal record |date = 1823-11-11 |page=66 | collection = Breconshire Baptisms |institution=Welsh Archive Services| item-url=https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBPRS%2FWAL%2F4433480%2F00034&parentid=GBPRS%2FB%2F916267004%2F1}} the fourth son of the Rev. Walter Wilkins, clerk, of Hay Castle. The family later adopted its ancestral surname "de Winton".{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofcountyo02jone/page/160/mode/2up |pages=155, 160 |title=A History of the County of Brecknock |first=Theophilus |last=Jones |volume=2 |location=Brecknock, Wales |publisher=Blissett, Davies & Co. |year=1909}}{{cite book |title=Shrewsbury School register 1798–1898 |page=[https://archive.org/details/b21778565/page/78 78] |url=https://archive.org/details/b21778565 |year=1898 |location=Oswestry |publisher=Shrewsbury School}} Henry was educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Cambridge.{{cite book |page=227 |url=https://archive.org/details/kellyshandbookt01unkngoog/page/n266/mode/2up |year=1882 |publisher=Kelly and Co. |location=London |edition=eighth |title=Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed & Official Classes}}{{cite book |title=Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part II |volume=ii |first=John |last=Venn |authorlink=John Venn |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge|url=https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri02univuoft#page/290/mode/2up |year=1944 |page=290}}

According to N. L. Jackson, while de Winton was studying at Cambridge in 1846, "two old Shrewsbury boys, Messrs. H. de Winton and J. C. Thring,Thring attended St John's College between 1843 and 1848: {{acad|id=THRN843JC |name=Thring, John Charles}} persuaded some Old Etonians to join them and formed a [football] club. Matches were few and far between, but some were played on Parker's Piece. Unfortunately, the game was not popular at the 'Varsity then, and the club did not last long".{{cite book |title=Association Football |page=26 |year=1900 |orig-year=1899 |location=London |publisher=Newnes |first=N. L. |last=Jackson}}. On the basis of this passage, de Winton has been credited with playing a part in the development of one of the earliest sets of "Cambridge rules", which were significant in the history of football.{{cite book|last1=Curry|first1=Graham|last2=Dunning|first2=Eric|title=Association Football: A Study in Figurational Sociology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qM0qBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA66|access-date=9 January 2018|date=2015-03-24|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317573500|page=66}}

De Winton died on 7 April 1895'Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries' Leeds Mercury (Leeds, England), Saturday, April 13, 1895; Issue 17791 in Tenby after suffering an attack of influenza.{{cite journal |page=8 |date=1895-04-16 |title=Death of Archdeacon de Winton |journal=Montgomeryshire Express and Radnor Times}}