George Hustler Tuck (28 April 1843 – 13 December 1920) was an English

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and a

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who played in 18

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matches between 1863 and 1876, most of them for

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and the

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(MCC). He was born and died at

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. Tuck was educated at

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and at

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. He was in the Eton cricket team as a right-handed middle-order batsman in both the 1861 and 1862

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matches. In his first match for Cambridge University in 1863, he also kept wicket, but that does not appear to have been a regular job, and he was merely an opening batsman in the 1863

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against

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, his only other first-class match that season. In all, he appeared four times in the University Match, and was unsuccessful on each occasion, Cambridge losing all four games. His greatest success as a batsman came in consecutive games against MCC and

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in 1865 in which he played two separate innings of 51. After leaving

, Tuck played in only a few first-class matches for MCC teams and for

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in 1867, and a single further match for MCC in 1876. Tuck graduated from Cambridge University in 1866 with a

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degree. Before graduation, he was attached to

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, and he was then

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in 1868, practising as a

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on the South Eastern Circuit. He was later a justice of the peace in Norfolk and a deputy lieutenant of Norfolk, and he lived at Blofield Hall, near Norwich.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tuck, George 1843 births 1920 deaths English cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Southgate cricketers People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Deputy lieutenants of Norfolk English justices of the peace Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers People from Blofield English barristers Cricketers from Norfolk