George Kelson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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cricketer
Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1835
Place of Birth: Sevenoaks, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 29-Mar-1920
Profession: cricketer
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About George Kelson
- George Mortimer Kelson (8 December 1835 – 29 March 1920) was an English amateur cricketer, fisherman and author who played for Kent County Cricket Club in the 19th century. Kelson was born in Sevenoaks in 1835.
- His father was a doctor and Kelson's early life was "comfortable".
- He made his first-class cricket debut for Kent in July 1859 in a county match against Sussex, going on to become a key member of the Kent side of the 1860s.
- He was described in The Times and his Wisden obituary as having been "beyond question the best bat in the Kent eleven" at a time when the best Kentish players would not play regularly for the county side.
- When batting he was described as "a fine punishing player with a free attractive style" and as "a brilliant field and a fairly good change bowler".
- He played 69 times for Kent, scoring 1,810 runs and taking 41 wickets for the county side which he captained occasionally.
- His only century came against Surrey in 1863.As well as playing for Kent, Kelson also appeared a number of times of the amateur Gentlemen of Kent side as well as playing for the Gentlemen against the Players and for England sides during the 1860s.
- He played his final first-class match in 1873.Away from cricket, Kelson was described as a "great fisherman" a "a great horseman, shot, (and) pigeon-racer".
- He was the fishing editor of Land and Water and wrote widely on the subject, authoring a number of books including The Salmon Fly, considered an important work on salmon flies by some and by some others as developing a pseudoscience around angling with flies.
- A new edition of his work, The Essential Kelson, was published in 2011.
- He died at Surbiton in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in 1920 aged 85.
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