time as another team, captained by W G Grace, were representing England against Australia. The sole first-class match on the tour was against a South African XI and this match was retrospectively given Test match status. He scored just nine runs in the Test match but acquitted himself well on the tour in general. In the Test match, played at Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town, Hearne played on the same side as his brother Alec and cousin John Thomas Hearne. His other brother Frank played for the South African side, having previously played for England. Family and later life Hearne married Mary Jane Strawn, the daughter of a Joseph Sharon, a coachman, on 12 March 1881. Mary died in 1916, after which George moved in with his unmarried daughter, Mabel. Hearne died at King's College Hospital at Denmark Hill in London in 1932 of bronchitis and influenza in 1932. He was 75. References External links 1856 births 1932 deaths England Test cricketers English cricketers Kent cricketers Players cricketers People from Ealing Deaths from bronchitis Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Players of the South cricketers North v South cricketers