George Morton (25 April 1828 – 21 June 1861) was an English 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. Morton was born at

Bedale Bedale ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the district of Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is north of Leeds, south-west of Middlesbrough and south-west of the county town of ...

in April 1828. Having played club cricket for a number of sides in the North of England, Morton made his debut in first-class cricket for the North in the North v South fixture of 1853 at The Oval, with him also appearing for an All-England Eleven in the same season against a combined Kent and Sussex cricket team at Tunbridge Wells. The following year he played for the North in the North v South fixture of 1854, before appearing in the same fixture in 1856. Morton scored 19 runs in his four first-class matches, while in hs role as a wicket-keeper he took 8 catches and made 4

stumping Stumped is a method of dismissing a batsman in cricket, which involves the wicket-keeper putting down the wicket while the batsman is out of his ground. (The batsman leaves his ground when he has moved down the pitch beyond the popping crease ...

s. He died at Bedale in June 1861.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Morton, George 1828 births 1861 deaths People from Bedale English cricketers North v South cricketers All-England Eleven cricketers Cricketers from North Yorkshire