George Gibbons Hearne

George Gibbons Hearne (7 July 1856 – 13 February 1932) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club between 1875 and 1895. He also played in one Test match for England against South Africa in 1891/92. Hearne was part of the famous cricketing Hearne family. His brothers Alec and Frank also played Test match cricket.

Early life Hearne was born on 7 July 1856 in Ealing in what was then Middlesex. His father, George Hearne, had played for Middlesex and became the groundsman at Kent's Private Banks Sports Ground in Catford in 1872. His brothers, Frank and Alec, both also played for Kent. In 1876 he was engaged on the staff at Prince's Cricket Ground and in 1877 on the Lord's ground staff where he would remain until 1901. He was awarded his county cap in 1885 and a benefit season in 1890. His final match for Kent was in 1895, although he continued to play sporadically for MCC until 1903 in first-class cricket and his last recorded match for the club was in 1915. He bowled left-arm fast-medium using a round arm action a moved the ball from the leg-side to the off-side, resulting in many dismissals caught in the slips. In his later career he developed his batting more effectively and became a "genuine all-rounder", making 1,000 runs in 1886, 987 of them for Kent.

In the Test match, played at Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town, Hearne played on the same team as his brother Alec and cousin John Thomas Hearne. His other brother Frank played for the South African team, having previously played for England.

Family and later life Hearne married Mary Jane Strawn, the daughter of a Joseph Sharon, a coachman, on 12 March 1881. Mary died in 1916, after which George moved in with his unmarried daughter, Mabel.