He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1878,[1] where he won his Blue as a freshman and played in the university match, against Oxford, four times.

While primarily a cricketer, George also played against Oxford in singles and doubles tennis during his last two years as an undergraduate at Cambridge.

George and his brother Charles toured Australia in 1882/3 with the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) captained by the Honourable Ivo Bligh.

The team won back the Ashes, but George disappointed in the four Tests in which he played, scoring only 31 runs in 7 innings.

From 1891 until his death, he lived and worked in a notorious and squalid area of Southern Los Angeles in California.