George Morrison (cricketer)

George Charles Morrison (27 June 1915 – 11 October 1993) 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.[1] Playing his club cricket for Queen's University Cricket Club and later North of Ireland,[1] Morrison made his debut in first-class cricket for Ireland against Yorkshire at Harrogate on Ireland's 1947 tour of England.[2] He made a further first-class appearance on the tour, against Derbyshire at Buxton.[2] He scored a total of 48 runs in these two matches,[3] as well as bowling fourteen wicket-less overs of medium pace.[4] Later that summer, he played two minor matches against the touring South Africans at Belfast.[5] He continued to play club cricket for North of Ireland until 1956, bringing to an end a seventeen-year association with the club.[1] Outside of cricket, he was a noted landscape painter.[1] He died at Stranmillis in Belfast in October 1993.[1]