Sir George Allanson Cayley, 8th Baronet (31 December 1831 – 10 October 1895) was a first-class

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 striki ...

er for

Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

and

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 influence ...

. Cayley was born at Brompton, near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, where his family had lived and held a

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since the 17th century. His grandfather, the 6th baronet – also named

George Cayley Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet (27 December 1773 – 15 December 1857) was an English engineer, inventor, and aviator. He is one of the most important people in the history of aeronautics. Many consider him to be the first true scientific aeri ...

(1773–1857) – was among other things an early pioneer of aeronautics. George Allanson Cayley was educated at

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and

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

. In 1859 he married his first cousin, Catherine Louisa, daughter of Sir William Worsley, 1st Baronet, of

Hovingham Hovingham is a large village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It is on the edge of the Howardian Hills and about south of Kirkbymoorside. History The name 'Hovingham' is first attested in the Domesday Boo ...

, 25 miles from Brompton. At some point he was an officer in the

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but only achieved the rank of

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. He stood for Parliament in the Ripon constituency in the 1868 general election but was defeated by the sitting MP, Lord John Hay. He was

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for the

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1872–95. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father, the 7th baronet, in 1883. He died at

Port Said Port Said ( ar, بورسعيد, Būrsaʿīd, ; grc, Πηλούσιον, Pēlousion) is a city that lies in northeast Egypt extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, north of the Suez Canal. With an approximate population of 6 ...

, Egypt, in 1895.

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George Allanson George Allanson was Archdeacon of Cornwall from 14 September 1737 until his death in 1741 . Allanson was born in the City of London, educated at Christ Church, Oxford and admitted to the Middle Temple in 1713. He held livings at St Tudy and St ...

People from Brompton, Scarborough People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Yorkshire Hussars officers Baronets in the Baronetage of England