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George Fillingham

1841 – 1895

English cricketer and pastoralist

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Lived 1841 – 1895 (aged 53). George Fillingham was a cricketer.

George Henry Fillingham (24 August 1841 – 17 January 1895) was an English first-class cricketer and administrator.

The son of George Fillingham senior, he was born in August 1841 at Syerston Hall in Syerston, Nottinghamshire. He was educated at Harrow School, where he played for the cricket eleven, before going up to St John's College, Oxford. He played a single first-class cricket match for the Gentlemen of the South against the Gentlemen of the North at Beeston in 1870, batting once in the match and being dismissed without scoring by A. N. Hornby; he was one of five ducks in the Gentlemen of the South first innings. He was a well known patron of cricket in Nottinghamshire, serving on the committee of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and later as its president. Outside of cricket, he was a justice of the peace. Fillingham died at Syerston in January 1895, six weeks after being shot in a hunting accident. His uncle was the cricketer Thomas Blake.

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Who was George Fillingham?

English cricketer and pastoralist

When was George Fillingham born?

George Fillingham was born on 24 August 1841 in Newark-on-Trent.

When did George Fillingham die?

George Fillingham died on 17 January 1895 in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.

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George Fillingham was a cricketer.

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