{{short description|English clergyman and cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}} {{Use British English|date=February 2016}} '''George Hone Goldney''' (baptised 23 January 1816 – 22 October 1871) was an English clergyman who played in a single first-class cricket match for Cambridge University in 1838.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/36/36882/36882.html| title = George Goldney | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 23 May 2014}}</ref> His exact birthdate is not known, but he was baptised at Buckingham and died in London.

The record for Goldney's one first-class cricket match is incomplete: it is known that he batted just once, scoring 5; there is no record whether he bowled or kept wicket, and nor is it known whether he was right- or left-handed.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/0/583.html | title = Scorecard: Cambridge University v Marylebone Cricket Club | date = 17 May 1838 | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 23 May 2014}}</ref>

==Family, name and career== Goldney was educated at Eton College and at King's College, Cambridge.<ref name="venn">{{cite web | url = https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri03univuoft#page/74/mode/2up | title = Alumni Cantabrigienses: George Goldney | author = J. Venn and J. A. Venn | volume = Part 3| page = 75 | accessdate = 23 May 2014}}</ref> He was a Fellow at King's from 1838 to 1850 and was also ordained as a Church of England clergyman, though he did not take up any church post.<ref name="venn"/> At some point, he hyphenated his middle and family names and became known as "George Hone-Goldney"; his son, who also played some first-class cricket at Cambridge, was known as "George Hone Hone-Goldney" by the time he arrived at the university.<ref name="venn"/>

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