George Aylmer Laverton (29 December 1888 – 8 February 1954) was an English first-class

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er and British Army officer. A member of the Laverton milling family of

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, he was the son of William Henry Laverton. He was educated at

Harrow School (The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God) , established = (Royal Charter) , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school , religion = Church of E ...

, where he played for the school cricket team. Laverton was commissioned into the British Army as a

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in February 1906, but later resigned his commission in December 1912. He played minor counties cricket for Wiltshire County Cricket Club, Wiltshire in 1911, making two appearances in the National Counties Cricket Championship, Minor Counties Championship. He served in the First World War with the Wiltshire Regiment, being appointed to the regiment in December 1914 with the temporary rank of Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines), lieutenant. He relinquished this temporary rank in April 1917, but was granted the rank in full the following month. Serving with the Regiment in British India, he was appointed aide-de-camp to Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, Lord Willingdon, the List of governors of Bombay Presidency, Governor of Bombay in February 1917. Laverton played first-class cricket whilst serving in India, making six appearances in 1917 and 1918; two of these came for the Europeans cricket team, Europeans in the Bombay Quadrangular, with a further two coming for the Lord Willingdon's XI. He additionally made an appearance each for a combined Europeans and Parsees team, and for Non-international England cricket teams, England against India national cricket team, India. In his six first-class matches, he scored 202 runs at an batting average (cricket), average of 18.36; he made one half century, a score of 51 on his first-class debut for the Europeans against the Parsis cricket team, Parsees in 1917. Laverton relinquished his commission in the Wiltshire Regiment in December 1921. Besides playing cricket, he was a keen naturalist. Laverton died in February 1954 at Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Wallingford, Berkshire.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Laverton, George 1888 births 1954 deaths People from Westbury, Wiltshire People educated at Harrow School English cricketers Wiltshire cricketers Wiltshire Regiment officers British Army personnel of World War I Europeans cricketers Lord Willingdon's XI cricketers Europeans and Parsees cricketers Cricketers from Wiltshire