Robert George Canning Harris, 4th Baron Harris

The Lord Harris

Personal information
Full name	George Robert Canning Harris
Born	(1851-02-03)3 February 1851 St Ann's, Trinidad
Died	24 March 1932(1932-03-24) (aged 81) Throwley, Kent
Nickname	Lord Harris
Batting style	righthanded
Bowling style	right arm roundarm fast
Role	batsman
International information
National side	England
Test debut (cap 13)	2 January 1879 v Australia
Last Test	11 August 1884 v Australia
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1870–1911	Kent
1871–1895	Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)
1871–1874	Oxford University
Career statistics
Competition Tests FC Matches 4 224 Runs scored 145 9,990 Batting average 29.00 26.85 100s/50s 0/1 11/55 Top score 52 176 Balls bowled 32 3,446 Wickets 0 75 Bowling average – 23.44 5 wickets in innings – 1 10 wickets in match – 0 Best bowling – 5/57 Catches/stumpings 2/– 190/–
Source: CricInfo, 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.