Horace Bloomfield

{{short description|English cricketer}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1891|7|15|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Brixton, London

| death_date = {{death date and age|1973|5|31|1891|7|15|df=yes}}

| death_place = Hillhead, Hampshire

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| date = 12 March 2017

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Horace Orlando Bloomfield (15 July 1891 – 31 May 1973) was an English cricketer. He played four first-class matches for Surrey between 1921 and 1922, scoring an unbeaten 107 on debut against Northamptonshire.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/9817.html |title=Horace Bloomfield |accessdate=12 March 2017 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}{{Cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10278.html|title=The Home of CricketArchive|website=cricketarchive.com|access-date=2 April 2020}}

In 1909 at the Private Banks Sports Ground Bloomfield had a successful season with the bat.{{cite news |title=London Banks Cricket |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000893/19090916/127/0007 |work=Sporting Life |date=16 September 1909|page=7}} In 1927 he played for a Lloyds Bank XI.{{cite news |title=Tie Matches |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001682/19270528/077/0010 |work=Sporting Times |date=28 May 1927|page=10}}

Bloomfield married Muriel Maude Holland, daughter of Surrey cricketer, Fred Holland, at Penge Congregational Church in 1922.{{cite news |title= Holland and Bloomfield |date= 22 September 1922 |work= The Norwood News |issue= 2845 |page= 5 }}