George Champion was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Kent

Kent County Cricket Club

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. He was born in Stockbury

Stockbury

Stockbury is a village near the town of Sittingbourne in Kent, England.but within the Maidstone Borough Council area.Listed in the Domesday Book.-External links:...

 and died in Linton

Linton, Kent

Linton is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the southward slope of the Greensand ridge, south of Maidstone on the A229 Hastings road....

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Champion made his first cricketing appearance in a Gentlemen vs. Players match in 1892, scoring 6 runs and 29 runs when opening the batting in the first and second innings respectively.

Champion's only first-class appearance came the following month against Somerset

Somerset County Cricket Club

Somerset County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Somerset...

, in which he failed to score a run in either innings in which he batted.

External links

• George Champion at Cricket Archive