George Milne

Who was George Milne?

George Taylor Milne was an English cricketer. Milne was a left-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

Taylor made his debut in county cricket for Northumberland in the 1901 Minor Counties Championship against the Yorkshire Second XI. Between 1904 and the start of World War I in 1914, Milne made 81 appearances for Northumberland in the Minor Counties Championship. In 1912, he was selected to play in a combined Minor Counties cricket team for its inaugural appearance in first-class cricket against the touring South Africans at the County Ground, Stoke-on-Trent, in 1912. In what was Milne's only first-class appearance, he batted once in the match, scoring an unbeaten 9 runs in the Minor Counties first-innings as a lower-order batsman. Following World War I, he made 65 further appearances in the Minor Counties Championship for Northumberland, with his final appearance coming against Durham in 1928.

He died at the city of his birth on 3 November 1968.