George Raynor

Background

He was born at Sandsend, Lythe, North Yorkshire and died at West Wickham, Kent.

Career

At Winchester, he was a right-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm fast bowler, but at Cambridge he batted very low in the batting order. The 37 not out that he made in the match against Surrey in 1872 constituted more than half of his total first-class runs and was made from Number 11 in the batting line-up. In the previous match, he had taken five wickets in the second innings of the Gentlemen of England game for 44 runs, and this was the best bowling performance of his first-class career.

He was picked for the 1872 University Match against Oxford University, but was not successful, failing to take a wicket.

In 1873, he played only a single match, again with little success, and was not selected again. From 1881 to 1886 he was headmaster of Kensington Foundation School and for the last year of his life was headmaster of the Royal Naval Academy at Gosport.

Achievements

• Raynor was educated at Brentwood Grammar School, from where he won a scholarship to Winchester College, and at Street John"s College, Cambridge.