George Talbot (1761 – 1850) was an English

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...

er. He was an early

Marylebone Cricket Club Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's Cricket Ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London. The club was formerly the governing body of cricket retaining considerable global influenc ...

(MCC) member who had previously been elected a

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member in 1788. He played in 23 recorded matches from 1785 to 1791 and was a useful batsman. In HCC, he is mentioned in connection with "some quaint wagers" in the betting book at White's Club. A member of the military, he eventually succeeded to his family title as 3rd Baronet.

References

* ''Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket'' by

G B Buckley George Bent Buckley (1885 – 26 April 1962) was an English surgeon and a celebrated cricket historian and an authority on the early days of the game. Buckley was born in Saddleworth, Yorkshire, the son of Arthur and Jane Buckley, his fathe ...

(FL18) * ''Hambledon Cricket Chronicle'' by

F S Ashley-Cooper Frederick Samuel Ashley-Cooper (born c. 22 March 1877 in Bermondsey, London; died 31 January 1932 in Milford, near Godalming, Surrey) was a cricket historian and statistician. According to '' Wisden'', Ashley-Cooper wrote "103 books and pamph ...

(HCC) * ''Scores & Biographies, Volume 1'' by

Arthur Haygarth Arthur Haygarth (4 August 1825 – 1 May 1903) was a noted amateur cricketer who became one of cricket's most significant historians. He played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club and Sussex between 1844 and 1861, as well as nu ...

(SBnnn) * ''The Dawn of Cricket'' by

H T Waghorn Henry Thomas Waghorn (11 April 1842 – 30 January 1930), was a cricket statistician and historian. He is best known for his two classic researches into cricket's early history: ''The Dawn of Cricket'' and Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730 - 1773 ...

(WDC) English cricketers Hampshire cricketers English cricketers of 1701 to 1786 English cricketers of 1787 to 1825 1761 births 1850 deaths Kent cricketers Surrey cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers White Conduit Club cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1760s-stub