George Harris, 4th Baron Harris
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| Full name | George Robert Canning Harris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3 February 1851 St Ann's, Trinidad |
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| Died | 24 March 1932 (aged 81) Throwley, Kent |
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| Nickname | Lord Harris | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | righthanded | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | right arm roundarm fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 13) | 2 January 1879 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 11 August 1884 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1870–1911 | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1871–1895 | Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1871–1874 | Oxford University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 8 February 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Colonel George Robert Canning Harris, 4th Baron Harris, GCSI, GCIE, CB, TD, ADC (3 February 1851 – 24 March 1932), generally known as Lord Harris, was a British colonial administrator. He was also an English amateur cricketer, mainly active from 1870 to 1889, who played for Kent and England as captain of both teams. He had a political career from 1885 to 1900 and was for much of his life a highly influential figure in cricket administration through the offices he held with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
The full span of Harris' first-class cricket career was from 1870 to 1911, at 42 seasons one of the longest on record, though he made only seven appearances after 1889 when he relinquished the Kent captaincy so his essential playing career was from 1870 to 1889. He appeared in 224 first-class matches, including four Test matches, as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm fast with a roundarm action. He scored 9,990 runs in first-class cricket with a highest score of 176 among eleven centuries and held 190 catches. He took 75 wickets with a best analysis of five for 57.
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