# George Fillingham
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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = George Fillingham
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = George Henry Fillingham
| birth_date = 24 August 1841
| birth_place = [Newark](/source/Newark-on-Trent), [Nottinghamshire](/source/Nottinghamshire), England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1895|1|17|1841|8|24|df=yes}}
| death_place = Newark, Nottinghamshire, England
| family = [Thomas Blake](/source/Thomas_Blake_(cricketer)) (uncle)
| club1 =
| year1 =
| columns = 1
| column1 = [First-class](/source/First-class_cricket)
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 0
| bat avg1 = 0.00
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 0
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–
| date = 4 May
| year = 2021
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/13049.html Cricinfo
}}
'''George Henry Fillingham''' {{postnominal|JP}} (24 August 1841 – 17 January 1895) was an [English](/source/English_people) first-class [cricket](/source/cricket)er and administrator.
The son of George Fillingham senior, he was born in August 1841 at Syerston Hall in [Syerston, Nottinghamshire](/source/Syerston). He was educated at [Harrow School](/source/Harrow_School), where he played for the cricket eleven,[{{cite book |title=The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911|last1=Dauglish|first1=M. G.|last2=Stephenson|first2=P. K.|publisher=[Longmans, Green, and Co.](/source/Longman)|location=London|year=1911|edition=3|page=[https://archive.org/details/harrowschoolregi00harruoft/page/282 282]|url=https://archive.org/details/harrowschoolregi00harruoft|language=en}}] before going up to [St John's College, Oxford](/source/St_John's_College%2C_Oxford).[{{cite book |title=Alumni Oxonienses |date=1891 |first=Joseph |last=Foster |chapter=Fillingham, George Henry |publisher=Parker and Company |page=461 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alumni_Oxonienses:_the_Members_of_the_University_of_Oxford,_1715-1886/Fillingham,_George_Henry |language=en}}] He played a single [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket) match for the [Gentlemen of the South](/source/Gentlemen_of_the_South) against the [Gentlemen of the North](/source/Gentlemen_of_the_North) at [Beeston](/source/Meadow_Road%2C_Beeston) in 1870,[{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29395/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by George Fillingham|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-05-04|url-access=subscription}}] batting once in the match and being dismissed without scoring by [A. N. Hornby](/source/A._N._Hornby); he was one of five [ducks](/source/duck_(cricket)) in the Gentlemen of the South first innings.[{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/1/1665.html|title=Gentlemen of the North v Gentlemen of the South, 1870|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-05-04|url-access=subscription}}] He was a well known patron of cricket in [Nottinghamshire](/source/Nottinghamshire), serving on the committee of [Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club](/source/Nottinghamshire_County_Cricket_Club) and later as its president.[{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/227098.html|title=Wisden - Obituaries in 1895|date=24 November 2005|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-05-04}}] Outside of cricket, he was a [justice of the peace](/source/Justice_of_the_peace). Fillingham died at Syerston in January 1895, six weeks after being shot in a hunting accident.