George William Armitage Render (5 January 1887 – 17 September 1922) was an English

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adju ...

er, who played one match for

Yorkshire County Cricket Club Yorkshire County Cricket Club is a professional Cricket club based in Yorkshire, England. The team competes in the County Championship, the top tier of English First-class cricket. Nicknamed "Vikings". Yorkshire also competes in T20 Blast, O ...

in 1919. Born in

Dewsbury Dewsbury is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder, West Yorkshire, River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, ...

Yorkshire Yorkshire ( ) is an area of Northern England which was History of Yorkshire, historically a county. Despite no longer being used for administration, Yorkshire retains a strong regional identity. The county was named after its county town, the ...

, England, Render was a right-handed batsman, who scored 5 batting at number five, in his only innings against

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. His right arm medium fast bowling was not called upon. Yorkshire won the match by ten wickets. Render also played for the Heavy Woollen District in 1911, Yorkshire Cricket Council in 1912 and the Yorkshire Second XI from 1912 to 1919 in local representative games. He died, just three years after his only first-class match, in September 1922 in

Hanging Heaton Hanging Heaton is a village in West Yorkshire, England. Partly in both Batley and Dewsbury, it is an historic village mentioned in the Domesday Book under the name 'Etun'. The prefix 'Hanging' refers to a steep hillside hanging above lower gro ...

, Yorkshire, aged 35.

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1887 births 1922 deaths Yorkshire cricketers Cricketers from Dewsbury English cricketers English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 20th-century English sportsmen {{england-cricket-bio-1880s-stub