George Chatterton was an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 cricket

Cricket

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er. He was born in Sheffield

Sheffield

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, Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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, England

England

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, and played eleven matches for Yorkshire

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

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, in its pre-county club incarnation, from 1849 to 1855. He also appeared for MCC

Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787. Its influence and longevity now witness it as a private members' club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London NW8. MCC was formerly the governing body of...

 from 1851 to 1861 in twenty three games and represented the North in thirteen fixtures, as well as playing in other first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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 games. A right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm slow underarm bowler, he scored 1,611 first-class runs with a best of 109, his only century, and took 25 wickets at 13.45, with his best return of 7 for 21 against Kent

Kent County Cricket Club

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Chatterton died in 1881 in Sheffield.