George Humphrey Burke (18 August 1847 – 24 July 1920) was an English professional cricketer. He played one first-class match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1877.George Burke, CricInfo. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
Burke was born at Greenwich, in what was then part of Kent, in 1847.George Burke, CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 August 2022. He was the son of Edmund and Harriet Burke (née Humphrey); his mother was originally from Westerham and his father was a dock labourer, the family living in Greenwich and in Plaistow, Bromley during Burke's childhood.Carlaw, pp. 93–94. (Retrieved 7 August 2022.)
A right-arm fast bowler, Burke was employed as a professional cricketer. He had a number of appointments throughout the 1870s, most notably at Prince's Cricket Ground and The Oval, as well as at Dudley, and was "in demand" as a ground bowler. He played club cricket in West Kent, and in his only first-class match, an 1877 fixture at the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury, scored a total of nine runs and took four wickets for Kent against Hampshire. He stood as an umpire in eight first-class matches between 1875 and 1887.
In 1879 Burke married Mary Rivett at Camberwell. He took over the shop his mother ran at Eynesford in Kent for a time and later worked as a painter for a variety of railway companies―the family moving regularly throughout London as well as living in Cambridge for a time. Burke and his wife had seven children. He died at Peckham in London in 1920 from chronic nephritis; he was aged 72. He is buried in Camberwell Old Cemetery.Woollacott R (2000) Camberwell Old Cemetery: London's forgotten Valhalla. Woollacott: London.
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