George Barnard

George William Barnard (2 February 1804 – 1827) was an English amateur cricketer who played twice in important matches for Cambridge University Cricket Club during the 1820s. He died at Cambridge before he graduated.

Life Barnard was born at Harefield in Middlesex in 1804, the son of the Edward and Mary Ann Barnard (née Beadon). His father served in the West Kent troop of the Yeomanry Cavalry at Chislehurst from their formation in 1793 before being ordained in the Church of England in 1797; he was appointed to Harefield parish in 1803, and the family lived there until 1807. Barnard's grandfather, also Edward, was a clergyman who had been a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and was the Headmaster of Eton College between 1754 and 1765 and the College Provost from 1765 until his death in 1781. Barnard's mother Mary Ann was the daughter of Edward Beadon, the vicar of St Nicolas Church, North Stoneham in Hampshire. She married his father, who had also attended St John's, in 1784. (Barnard's father held a number of appointments in the Church.) He died at Alverstoke in Hampshire, where he had been vicar since 1825, in 1840. Despite his father being Provost and having been Headmaster, he did not attend Eton, instead being privately educated. He went up to King's College, Cambridge in 1823 as a scholar and was elected as a Fellow of the college in 1826. He died at Cambridge in 1827 without graduating.