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George Lacy Hillier (6 June 1856 in Sydenham- 11 February 1941 in London)[1] was an English racing cyclist, a pioneer of British cycling,
and an excellent all-around athlete. He was one of the founders of the Chichester and District Motorcycle Club, and served as its president. He was a member of other sports clubs and was racing secretary of the London County Cycling and Athletic Club. As such, in 1891, he initiated the construction of the Herne Hill Velodrome in the south of London.[2]
In 1881 Hillier was a national cycling champion over various distances. In 1885 he traveled to Leipzig, won a ten kilometre race against the German champion John Pundt, and set a new record on the track.[3] For a prize, Hillier received a tape with a silver-plated cutlery and a medal.[4]
Hillier wrote several books including the 500 page Cycling for the Badminton Library with William Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle, in 1887.[5]
In the 1892 Cyclist annual and yearbook Hillier set out a history of the cycling Hour record in which he identified Frederick Lindley Dodds of Stockton-on-Tees, who was then a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, as having set the first Hour record, on March 25, 1876, stating that "Dodds probably covered 15 miles and about 1,480 yards in the hour."[6]
Later Hillier continued to work as a writer and journalist, as well as on the London Stock Exchange, like his father before him. His grave is located in London at the Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery.[7]
^"George Lacy Hillier". Grace's Guide. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
^The Bicycling Times, 7 February 1878
^Badminton Library Cycling, 189, S. 98
^Der Velocipedsport, 1895. Die Zeitung gab Hilliers Namen als George Lazy (!) Hillier an.
^Cycling. Longmans, Green, and Co. (Internet Archive). 1887. Retrieved 3 September 2013. bibliogroup:Badminton library of sports and pastimes.
^McKay, Feargal (22 August 2018). "The First Hours - The Hour Record Before Henri Desgrange". Podium Cafe. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
^"George Lacy Hillier: Amateur Cycling Champion at ALL(!) distances, 1881". Friends of Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
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