George Traill (British Army officer)

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.

George Traill
Personal information
Full name
George Balfour Traill
Born20 June 1833
Lewisham, Kent, England
Died20 November 1913(1913-11-20) (aged 80)
Battersea, London, England
BattingUnknown
RelationsJames Traill (brother)
William Traill (brother)
William Hartopp (brother-in-law)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1864Marylebone Cricket Club
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 1
Runs scored 5
Batting average 5.00
100s/50s –/–
Top score 4
Catches/stumpings –/–
Source: Cricinfo, 19 October 2021

Life

The 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

Traill 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

Traill 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
  1. Burke, Bernard (1886). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison. p. 1841.
  2. 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.
  3. Hart, H. G. (1878). A list of the general and field-officers, as they rank in the army. London: John Murray. p. 90.
  4. 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.
  5. Obituary. Dublin Daily Express. 22 November 1913. p. 10
  6. "No. 22621". The London Gazette. 29 April 1862. p. 2232.
  7. "No. 23563". The London Gazette. 7 December 1869. p. 6917.
  8. "No. 24121". The London Gazette. 11 August 1874. p. 3968.
  9. "No. 25093". The London Gazette. 7 April 1882. p. 1587.
  10. "No. 25191". The London Gazette. 23 January 1883. p. 399.
  11. "No. 25779". The London Gazette. 20 January 1888. p. 496.
  12. "No. 11947". The Edinburgh Gazette. 2 July 1907. p. 687.
  13. "First-Class Matches played by George Traill". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  14. "Middlesex v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1864". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  15. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Holden, Charles Shuttleworth" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  16. Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed & Official Classes. Kelly and Company. 1882. p. 158.
  17. "Holden, Captain Edward Charles Shuttleworth". Who's Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 26 October 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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