George Balfour Traill CB (20 June 1833 — 20 November 1913) was a British Indian Army and British Army officer and an English first-class cricketer.
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| Full name | George Balfour Traill | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 June 1833 Lewisham, Kent, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 20 November 1913 (aged 80) Battersea, London, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
| Relations | James Traill (brother) William Traill (brother) William Hartopp (brother-in-law) | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1864 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 19 October 2021 | |||||||||||||||
Life
editThe son of James Traill senior (1794–1873), a Metropolitan police magistrate, and his wife Caroline Whateley, he was the younger brother of James Christie Traill,[1][2] born in June 1833 at Lewisham. He was commissioned into the British Indian Army as a cornet in December 1852.[3] He served during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and was present at the Siege of Delhi, the Battle of Agra and the Siege of Lucknow.[4][5] He was promoted to lieutenant during the rebellion in July 1857,[3] with promotion to second captain following in October 1861, with Traill having transferred from the Bengal Artillery to the Royal Artillery.[6]
As his military career progressed, Traill gained the rank of captain in December 1869,[7] before being promoted to major in July 1874.[8] A further promotion to lieutenant colonel followed, with Traill being appointed to the Staff as an Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General in Ireland in April 1882.[9] He was promoted to colonel in December of that year,[10] before retiring in December 1887 and being granted the honorary rank of major-general.[11] On occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Indian Rebellion, Traill was made a Member of the Order of the Bath in the 1907 Birthday Honours.[12] He died at Battersea Park in November 1913.[5]
Cricketer
editTraill played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Middlesex at Islington in 1864.[13] Batting twice in the match, he was ended the MCC's first innings not out on 1, while in their second innings he opened the batting and was dismissed for 4 runs by V. E. Walker.[14]
His brothers James and William both played first-class cricket.
Family
editTraill married in 1876 Juliana Evans, 4th daughter of Edward Bourchier Hartopp, as her second husband.[2] She had previously been married to Charles Shuttleworth Holden of Aston Hall, Derbyshire, who died in 1872.[2][15][16] Edward Charles Shuttleworth Holden (1865–1916) was her son by the first marriage.[17]
References
edit- ^ Burke, Bernard (1886). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison. p. 1841.
- ^ a b c Traill, William (1883). Genealogical Account of the Traills of Orkney: With a Pedigree Table Tracing Their Descent from the Traills of Blebo, in Fifeshire. J. Calder. pp. 66–67.
- ^ a b Hart, H. G. (1878). A list of the general and field-officers, as they rank in the army. London: John Murray. p. 90.
- ^ Jordan, John Woolf; Green, Edgar Moore; Ettinger, George Taylor (1905). Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 40. ISBN 9785883573063.
- ^ a b Obituary. Dublin Daily Express. 22 November 1913. p. 10
- ^ "No. 22621". The London Gazette. 29 April 1862. p. 2232.
- ^ "No. 23563". The London Gazette. 7 December 1869. p. 6917.
- ^ "No. 24121". The London Gazette. 11 August 1874. p. 3968.
- ^ "No. 25093". The London Gazette. 7 April 1882. p. 1587.
- ^ "No. 25191". The London Gazette. 23 January 1883. p. 399.
- ^ "No. 25779". The London Gazette. 20 January 1888. p. 496.
- ^ "No. 11947". The Edinburgh Gazette. 2 July 1907. p. 687.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by George Traill". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ "Middlesex v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1864". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed & Official Classes. Kelly and Company. 1882. p. 158.
- ^ "Holden, Captain Edward Charles Shuttleworth". Who's Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 26 October 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)