Rupert Harry Horsley (17 December 1905 – 5 March 1988) was a teacher, an English first-class cricketer, an amateur painter of some skill, and a keen and knowledgeable gardener. The son of Albert Beresford Horsley, and older brother of Sir Peter Horsley, he was born in December 1905 at West Hartlepool. He was educated at the Dragon School and Winchester College; from there he won an Exhibition to study History at Brasenose College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he made three appearances as a wicket-keeper in first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1927, against Lancashire, Harlequins and the Free Foresters. In his three matches, he scored 78 runs with a high score of 25, and behind the stumps he took nine catches and made a single stumping. During his time at Oxford, he was always