George Gibbons Hearne was a cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played first-class cricket

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 for Kent

Kent County Cricket Club

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 between 1875

1875 English cricket season

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 and 1895

1895 English cricket season

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. He also played in one Test match

Test cricket

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 for England

English cricket team

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 against South Africa

South African cricket team

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 in 1891-92. Hearne was part of the famous cricketing Hearne family. His brothers Alec

Alec Hearne

Alec Hearne was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent between 1884 and 1906. Hearne was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1894...

 and Frank

Frank Hearne

Frank Hearne was a cricketer.One of the few men to play Test cricket for more than one country, he played for both England and South Africa....

also played Test match cricket.

Hearne married Mary Sharon, the daughter of an Joseph Sharon, a coachman, on 12 March 1881. Mary died in 1916, after which Alec moved in with his unmarried daughter, Mabel. Hearne died of bronchitis and influenza in 1932.