George Kennedy (cricketer)
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| Full name | George Marius Kennedy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | July 1841 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 6 March 1869 (aged 27) Secunderabad, Hyderabad State, British India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 16 November 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George Marius Kennedy (July 1841 – 6 March 1869) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
The son of John Pitt Kennedy, he was born in July 1841 and was educated at Cheltenham College.[1] Kennedy played first-class cricket for the Gentlemen of the North against the Gentlemen of the South on two occasions in 1861 and 1862.[2] In the 1861 fixture, he took a five wicket haul in the Gentlemen of the South's first-innings, taking figures of 5 for 70.[3] After leaving Cheltenham, he attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He graduated from Woolwich into the Royal Artillery as a lieutenant in 1864.[1] While serving in British India, Kennedy was part of a tiger hunting expedition near Secunderabad when he became ill from heat stroke, dying on 6 March 1869.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Hunter, Andrew Alexander (1890). Cheltenham College Register, 1841-1889. Bell. p. 397.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by George Kennedy". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- ^ "Gentlemen of the South v Gentlemen of the North, 1861". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 November 2019.