George Fillingham

George Fillingham
Personal information
Full name	George Henry Fillingham
Born	24 August 1841; Newark, Nottinghamshire, England
Died	17 January 1895 (aged 53); Newark, Nottinghamshire, England
Batting	Unknown
Relations	Thomas Blake (uncle)
Career statistics
Matches	1
Runs scored	0
Batting average	0.00
100s/50s	–/–
Top score	0
Catches/stumpings	2/–
	Source: Cricinfo, 4 May 2021

George Henry Fillingham JP (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,^[1] before going up to St John's College, Oxford.^[2] He played a single first-class cricket match for the Gentlemen of the South against the Gentlemen of the North at Beeston in 1870,^[3] 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.^[4] He was a well known patron of cricket in Nottinghamshire, serving on the committee of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and later as its president.^[1] Fillingham was also a founder of the Gentlemen of Nottinghamshire team.^[5] 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.^[1] His uncle was the cricketer Thomas Blake.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c Dauglish, M. G.; Stephenson, P. K. (1911). The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911 (3 ed.). London: Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 282.
^ Foster, Joseph (1891). "Fillingham, George Henry". Alumni Oxonienses. Parker and Company. p. 461.
^ "First-Class Matches played by George Fillingham". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
^ "Gentlemen of the North v Gentlemen of the South, 1870". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
^ "Wisden - Obituaries in 1895". CricketArchive. 24 November 2005. Retrieved 4 May 2021.