Personal information | |
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Full name | George Humphrey Burke |
Born | Greenwich, Kent | 18 August 1847
Died | 24 July 1920 Peckham, London | (aged 72)
Batting | Right-handed |
Bowling | Right-arm fast |
Role | Bowler |
Domestic team information | |
Years | Team |
1877 | Kent |
Only FC | 30 July 1877 Kent v Hampshire |
Source:
Cricinfo, 9 March 2017 |
George Humphrey Burke (18 August 1847 – 24 July 1920) was an English professional cricketer. He played one first-class match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1877. [1]
Burke was born at Greenwich, in what was then part of Kent, in 1847. [2] He was the son of Edmund and Harriet Burke ( née Humphrey); his mother was originally from Westerham and his father was a dock labourer, the family living in Greenwich and in Plaistow, Bromley during Burke's childhood. [3]
A right-arm fast bowler, Burke was employed as a professional cricketer. He had a number of appointments throughout the 1870s, most notably at Prince's Cricket Ground and The Oval, as well as at Dudley, and was "in demand" as a ground bowler. [3] He played club cricket for a variety of sides in West Kent, [3] and in his only first-class match, an 1877 fixture at the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury, scored a total of nine runs and took four wickets for Kent against Hampshire. [2] He stood as an umpire in eight first-class matches between 1875 and 1887. [2] [3]
In 1879 Burke married Mary Rivett at Camberwell. He took over the shop his mother ran at Eynesford in Kent for a time and later worked as a painter for a variety of railway companies―the family moving regularly throughout London as well as living in Cambridge for a time. Burke and his wife had seven children. He died at Peckham in London in 1920 from chronic nephritis; [3] he was aged 72. [1] He is buried in Camberwell Old Cemetery. [4]
Personal information | |
---|---|
Full name | George Humphrey Burke |
Born | Greenwich, Kent | 18 August 1847
Died | 24 July 1920 Peckham, London | (aged 72)
Batting | Right-handed |
Bowling | Right-arm fast |
Role | Bowler |
Domestic team information | |
Years | Team |
1877 | Kent |
Only FC | 30 July 1877 Kent v Hampshire |
Source:
Cricinfo, 9 March 2017 |
George Humphrey Burke (18 August 1847 – 24 July 1920) was an English professional cricketer. He played one first-class match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1877. [1]
Burke was born at Greenwich, in what was then part of Kent, in 1847. [2] He was the son of Edmund and Harriet Burke ( née Humphrey); his mother was originally from Westerham and his father was a dock labourer, the family living in Greenwich and in Plaistow, Bromley during Burke's childhood. [3]
A right-arm fast bowler, Burke was employed as a professional cricketer. He had a number of appointments throughout the 1870s, most notably at Prince's Cricket Ground and The Oval, as well as at Dudley, and was "in demand" as a ground bowler. [3] He played club cricket for a variety of sides in West Kent, [3] and in his only first-class match, an 1877 fixture at the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury, scored a total of nine runs and took four wickets for Kent against Hampshire. [2] He stood as an umpire in eight first-class matches between 1875 and 1887. [2] [3]
In 1879 Burke married Mary Rivett at Camberwell. He took over the shop his mother ran at Eynesford in Kent for a time and later worked as a painter for a variety of railway companies―the family moving regularly throughout London as well as living in Cambridge for a time. Burke and his wife had seven children. He died at Peckham in London in 1920 from chronic nephritis; [3] he was aged 72. [1] He is buried in Camberwell Old Cemetery. [4]