George Knight

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George T. Knight (cricketer)

George Thomas ("GT") Knight (22 November 1795 at Goodnestone Park, Kent – 25 August 1867 at Moorfields, Hereford) was a famous English amateur cricketer. He was a prominent member of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) who played a significant part in the introduction and legalisation of roundarm bowling, which he supported, between 1825 and 1835.

He was the second son of Jane Austen's brother Edward Austen Knight, who had added the additional surname of Knight in 1812 when he inherited the Chawton House estate from Thomas Knight. Knight's brothers, Edward, Henry and Brook, grandsons Edward and Lewis D'Aeth, and nephews Philip, William and Gerald Portal all played first-class cricket.

Knight's playing career spanned the 1820 to 1837 seasons. He made 23 known appearances in major cricket matches as a right-arm fast roundarm bowler and a late order right-handed batsman. He was an occasional wicketkeeper.

His career record is incomplete but he is credited with 22 wickets and a best performance of 4 in one innings. He scored 282 runs with a highest score of 36. He took 5 catches and made 6 stumpings.

George Knight (cricketer, born 1835)

George Knight (28 March 1835 – 8 January 1901) was an English cricketer. Knight was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He occasionally bowled underarm slow. He was born at Petworth, Sussex.

Knight made his first-class debut for Sussex against Kent in 1860. He played infrequently for Sussex over the next fourteen years, making twelve further first-class appearances, the last of which came against Gloucestershire in 1874. In his thirteen first-class appearances, he scored a total of 125 runs at an average of 6.25, with a high score of 21. In the field he took 8 catches and made 11 stumpings. With his occasionally underarm bowling, he took just a single wicket.

He died at the town of his birth on 8 January 1901.

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