George Edward Hartley (23 July 1909 – 25 August 1992) was an English

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er. Hartley was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm slow. He was born in

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, Yorkshire. Hartley made a single in the 1935

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for Denbighshire against Durham. Later, following World War II, Hartley made his only first-class appearance for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Cambridge University in 1946. In this match, he scored 3 runs in the MCC first-innings, before being dismissed by

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, while in their second-innings he scored the same number of runs and was dismissed by the same bowler. He died in

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on 25 August 1992.

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