George Brown Studd (20 October 1859 – 13 February 1945) was an English cricketer and missionary. Studd was the second eldest of the famous

Studd brothers The Studd brothers, Sir John Edward Kynaston, George (GB) and Charles (CT), were Victorian gentleman cricketers; they were educated at Eton and Cambridge. They all represented Eton in the Eton v Harrow annual needle match and represented Cambri ...

, who dominated English

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in the late 19th century. He played in four

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with the English cricket team, and played

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for

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and

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. Studd was born at Netheravon House, near

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, Wiltshire, England. He won his cricket Colours for

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in 1877 when he scored 32 and 23 against

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and 54 against

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. He went up to

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in 1878, where he won his Blue as a

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and played in the university match, against

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, four times. He made 38 and 40 against Oxford in 1880, and he and two of his brothers, Kynaston and

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, were together in the Cambridge team in 1881 and 1882. George was captain of Cambridge in 1882, when he scored 120, which at the time was only the seventh three-figure score and the second highest in University matches. While primarily a cricketer, George also played against Oxford in singles and doubles

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during his last two years as an undergraduate at Cambridge. In 1882, he made 819 runs in first-class matches and then scored 289 while playing for the Cambridge Long Vacation Club. George and his brother Charles toured Australia in 1882/3 with the

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(MCC) captained by the Honourable

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. The team won back

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, but George disappointed in the four Tests in which he played, scoring only 31 runs in 7

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. George was called to the

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, but never practised. Like his brother Charles, he became a

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, initially with the Peniel Mission of Theodore and

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, before joining the Apostolic Faith mission in September 1907. From 1891 until his death, he lived and worked in a notorious and squalid area of Southern

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References

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Obituary
from ''

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', or simply ''Wisden'', colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. The description "bible of cricket" was first used in the 1930s by Alec Waugh in a ...

'', 1946
George's Missionary statements
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