George Sydney Raynor (9 October 1852 – 1 September 1887) was an English clergyman, a schoolmaster and a cricketer who played in first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University in 1872 and 1873.
[1] He was born at Sandsend, Lythe, North Yorkshire and died at West Wickham, Kent.
Raynor was educated at Brentwood Grammar School, from where he won a scholarship to Winchester College, and at St John's College, Cambridge.
[3] 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.
Raynor graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1875 and took up a post as an assistant master at Repton School; he was ordained as a Church of England priest in 1877.