George Matthew Ede (22 February 1834 – 13 March 1870) was an English first-class cricketer and a Grand National winning jockey.
The son of Job Ede and his wife, Catherine, he was born alongside his twin brother, Edward, at Southampton in February 1834.
Coming from the age of the public school educated all round sportsman, it is perhaps as an accomplished horse racing jockey that Ede is better remembered, riding for several years as one of the top Victorian amateurs in steeplechasing.
[5] These feats were made even more remarkable by the fact he had been seriously injured in a fall just a few months earlier at Croydon Racecourse, followed by a complicated recovery.
At the Monument fence, today known as The Chair, Ede fell from Chippenham and although the initial fall did not injure him, it was when the horse tried to rise that he was fatally injured when Chippenham stumbled and crashed heavily onto him, causing crush injuries to his chest and several broken ribs, in addition causing a serious head injury.
Ede succumbed to his injuries three days later at the Sefton home of horse trainer Ben Land, without regaining consciousness.