George Harold Shepstone (9 April 1876 – 3 July 1940) was a South African cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1896 and 1899.
[1] Shepstone was an all-rounder – a right-handed middle-order batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler – who made his first-class and Test debuts in the same match, for South Africa against England in 1895–96.
[3] Opening the Transvaal bowling with Jimmy Sinclair, he also took 14 wickets in the competition, including 5 for 77 and 4 for 34 against Natal.
[6] Shepstone married Ellen Hilda Chambers, a divorcee, in Johannesburg in August 1907.
[7] In July 1940, suffering from bowel cancer, he shot himself in the head, and died in hospital in Germiston, aged 64.