Wyndham Hill-Smith

Who was Wyndham Hill-Smith?

Wyndham Hill-Smith OBE was a cricketer.

The nephew of Australia captain Clem Hill, Hill-Smith was a left-handed batsman. He played eight first-class matches for Western Australia and one for a representative Australian XI.

He made his first-class debut against the touring South Africans at the WACA Ground in 1932. Opening the batting, he made 56 runs before being dismissed by Xen Balaskas.

Following the death of his brother Sidney in the Kyeema aircraft crash in 1938, Hill-Smith returned to South Australia to take on the management of the family winery, Yalumba at Angaston.

A grandstand at Cheltenham Park Racecourse is known as the Wyndham Hill Smith Grandstand.

His Wisden obituary concluded with the comment, "In later life he became famous for the liberal hospitality which he extended to touring teams at his Yalumba vineyard in South Australia."

In 1980, Hill-Smith was made an Officer in the Order of the British Empire for services to the wine industry and horse racing.