George Burke (cricketer)

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.

[2] 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.

[3] A right-arm fast bowler, Burke was employed as a professional cricketer.

[3] He played club cricket for a variety of sides in West Kent,[3] 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.