George Maximilian Bethune (1854 – 1942) was an English cricketer who played for Hampshire during leaves from his occupation of managing sugar plantations in what was then British Guiana.
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| Born | 10 June 1854 North Bersted, Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 9 February 1942 (aged 87) Bournemouth, Hampshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1886 - 1892 | Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cricketing career
editIn 1886 and 1887 Hampshire played him as a batsman, with very limited success. In 1889 he was first used as a bowler, delivering 11 maidens out of 23 overs in his first match and taking 4 wickets for only 25 runs. Thereafter his place was owed to his highly economical bowling, which resulted over his brief career in 44% of his overs being maidens.[1]
His first cousin Henry Beauclerk Bethune also played for Hampshire.
Life
editHe was the son of the Reverend George Cuddington Bethune (1807-1898), at the time rector of Worth, Sussex, and his wife Julia (1822-1915),[2][3] daughter of the Reverend George Hole, rector of Chulmleigh and grandson of George Horne,[4] and his wife Jane, daughter of Robert Hawgood Crew.
He made his career in the sugar industry of British Guiana, becoming manager of the major estate of Enmore.[5]
In 1890 he married Elizabeth de Burgh (1861-1930), daughter of Michael Rowland O'Maley,[6] manager of the Colonial Bank (since part of Barclays) in Georgetown, and his first wife Julia Adriana,[7] daughter of Major Jacob Heitmann Gyllich, Knight of the Dannebrog and grand-daughter of Frederik Christian von Meley. They had seven children.
His third son, Edward Charles O'Maley Bethune (1900-1985), was also a cricketer, playing for Felsted School.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Player Oracle: GM Bethune". CricketArchive. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
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- ^ August 2016 [permanent dead link]
- ^ June 2017[permanent dead link]
- ^ Josiah, Barbara P. (2011), Migration, Mining, and the African Diaspora: Guyana in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, London, p. 199, ISBN 978-0230338012
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ O'Maley, Elizabeth De Burgh, married Bethune, George Maximilian, 6 Sep 1890, Pro-Cathedral, Georgetown British Guiana Colonists, retrieved 15 October 2015
- ^ December 2015[permanent dead link]
- ^ 1 October 2015