George Morrison (cricketer)
George Charles Morrison was an Irish first-class cricketer and artist.
Morrison was born at Downpatrick in January 1906, and was educated in Belfast at Methodist College Belfast, before going up to Queen's University Belfast. Playing his club cricket for Queen's University Cricket Club and later North of Ireland, Morrison made his debut in first-class cricket for Ireland against Yorkshire at Harrogate on Ireland's 1947 tour of England. He made a further first-class appearance on the tour, against Derbyshire at Buxton. He scored a total of 48 runs in these two matches, as well as bowling fourteen wicket-less overs of medium pace. Later that summer, he played two minor matches against the touring South Africans at Belfast. He continued to play club cricket for North of Ireland until 1956, bringing to an end a seventeen-year association with the club. Outside of cricket, he was a noted landscape painter. He died at Stranmillis in Belfast in October 1993.
