George Henry Fillingham (24 August 1841 – 17 January 1895) was an

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first-class

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er and administrator. The son of George Fillingham senior, he was born in August 1841 at Syerston Hall in Syerston, Nottinghamshire. He was educated at

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, where he played for the cricket eleven, before going up to

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. He played a single

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match for the

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against the

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at Beeston in 1870, batting once in the match and being dismissed without scoring by

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; he was one of five

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in the Gentlemen of the South first innings. He was a well known patron of cricket in

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, serving on the committee of

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and later as its president. Fillingham was also a founder of the Gentlemen of Nottinghamshire team. Outside of cricket, he was a

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. Fillingham died at Syerston in January 1895, six weeks after being shot in a hunting accident. His uncle was the cricketer Thomas Blake.

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