John Thornhill

John Thornhill (14 July 1815 – 28 January 1875) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.

The son of the politician George Thornhill, he was born in July 1815 at Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire. He was educated at Rugby School, before going up to St John's College, Cambridge. After graduating from Cambridge, he took holy orders in the Anglican Church, being ordained as a deacon at Durham Cathedral in 1838. His first ecclesiastical post was at Boxworth in Cambridgeshire, where he was appointed reverend in 1839. He scored 19 runs in his two matches, with a highest score of 8. From 1850 he was concurrently the reverend of Childerley, a hamlet to the south of Boxworth.