{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=February 2016}} '''George Macan''' (c. 9 September 1853 – 2 November 1943) was an Irish-born lawyer and reporter, and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University between 1872 and 1875.<ref name="ca">{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31128/31128.html| title = George Macan | publisher = CricketArchive | access-date = 21 August 2014}}</ref> He was born at Castlebellingham, County Louth, Ireland and died at Wimbledon, London.
==Biography== Macan was educated at Harrow School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.<ref name="venn">{{cite web | url = https://archive.org/stream/p2alumnicantabri04univuoft#page/250/mode/2up | title = Alumni Cantabrigienses: George Macan | author = J. Venn and J. A. Venn | volume = Part 4| page = 251 | access-date = 21 August 2014}}</ref> As a cricketer, Macan was a right-handed middle- or lower-order batsman and a right-arm slow bowler, though he did not bowl in first-class cricket.<ref name="ca"/> He played in a single match for Cambridge University in 1872, and then reappeared fairly regularly in 1873, scoring 57 against an "England XI" which was a rather pale shadow of the Rest of England cricket teams that played as "England" in the period before international cricket began; the 57 was his highest first-class score, but he was unsuccessful in other matches and was not picked for the 1873 University Match against Oxford University.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/1/1802.html | title = Scorecard: Cambridge University v England XI | date = 26 May 1873 | publisher = CricketArchive | access-date = 21 August 2014}}</ref> In one match, he played for "the Gentlemen of England" ''against'' the university side.<ref name="ca"/> Though he failed to pass 50 again, he was more consistently successful in both 1874 and 1875 and played in the University Match in both seasons. In 1874, he made 6 and 12 as a poor Cambridge batting side was overwhelmed by an innings and 92 runs; in 1875, he made 2 and 1 not out as Cambridge lost by just six runs.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/1/1890.html | title = Scorecard: Oxford University v Cambridge University | date = 29 June 1874 | publisher = CricketArchive | access-date = 21 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/1/1958.html | title = Scorecard: Oxford University v Cambridge University | date = 28 June 1875 | publisher = CricketArchive | access-date = 21 August 2014}}</ref> He played no further first-class cricket after leaving Cambridge, but is recorded in non-first-class scorecards from Marylebone Cricket Club and other amateur sides up to 1890.<ref name="ca"/>
Macan graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1875 and then qualified as a lawyer, being called to the bar in 1877.<ref name="venn"/> He did not practise as a barrister, but instead acted as a court reporter, working for the Law Times Reports in the Chancery Division.<ref name="venn"/>
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