George Richards Burnett (23 March 1824 – 13 April 1915) was an English first-class

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er and distiller.

Biography

Burnett was born at

Streatham Streatham ( ) is a district in south London, England. Centred south of Charing Cross, it lies mostly within the London Borough of Lambeth, with some parts extending into the neighbouring London Borough of Wandsworth. Streatham was in Surrey ...

in March 1824. He made two appearances in first-class cricket for the Gentlemen of Kent against the Gentlemen of England at Canterbury in 1849 and

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in 1850. He scored 31 runs in his two matches, with a high score of 13. Burnett was a distiller based at Vauxhall by profession. Burnett died at Hove in April 1915, aged 91.

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