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{{short description|English cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| fullname = George Nisbet Marten
| birth_date = 20 June 1840
| birth_place = [[Ghazipur|Ghazeepoor]], [[Uttar Pradesh Presidency]], [[Company rule in India|British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1905|6|25|1840|6|20}}
| death_place = [[Crowborough]], [[Sussex]], England
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| nickname =
| family = [[George Marten (cricketer, born 1801)|George Marten]] (uncle)
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling =
| role =
| club1 = [[Marylebone Cricket Club]]
| year1 = 1864–1869
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 4
| runs1 = 50
| bat avg1 = 10.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 26
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–
| date = 10 August
| year = 2019
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/17388.html Cricinfo
}}

'''George Nisbet Marten''' {{postnominal|JP}} (20 June 1840 – 25 August 1905) was an [[English people|English]] first-class [[cricket]]er.

The son Thomas Powney Marten, he was born in [[British India]] at [[Ghazipur|Ghazeepoor]].<ref name="BOOK">{{alox2|title=Marten, George Nisbet}}</ref> He was educated in England at [[Harrow School]],<ref name="HARR">{{cite book |title=The Harrow School Register, 1845-1925 |last1=Stogdon |first1=John Hubert |date=1925 |publisher=Longmans, Green and Company |page=78 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Iz-kGyL-wsC |language=en}}</ref> before going up to [[Pembroke College, Oxford]].<ref name="BOOK"/> While studying at Oxford, Marten was [[Officer (armed forces)#United Kingdom|commissioned]] as a [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] in the [[Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment|Hertfordshire Militia]] in March 1861.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22488|date=12 March 1861|page=1157}}</ref> A year after graduating from Oxford in 1863, Marten made his debut in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] against [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex]] at [[Lord's]], while in 1865 he appeared for the [[Gentlemen of England]] against the [[Gentlemen of Middlesex]]. Four years later in 1869, he made two final appearances in first-class cricket for the MCC against [[Oxford University Cricket Club|Oxford University]] at Lord's, and [[Hampshire County Cricket Club|Hampshire]] at [[Day's (Antelope) Ground|Southampton]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31276/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by George Marten |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-08-10 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Marten scored 50 runs in his four matches, with a high score of 26.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31276/31276.html |title=Player profile: George Marten |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-08-10 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was promoted to the rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in the Hertfordshire Militia in March 1866.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23101|date=13 April 1866|page=2394}}</ref>

By 1872 he had emigrated to Australia, where he lived on the Branscombe Plantation near [[Mackay, Queensland]]. He later returned to England with his wife, Annie.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/153849184?q&versionId=167748678 |title=Morning tea on the verandah at Winterbourne |publisher=[[National Library of Australia]] |accessdate=2019-08-10}}</ref> He was a [[justice of the peace]], and was by profession a banker.<ref name="HARR"/> Marten died at [[Crowborough]] in June 1905. His uncle, [[George Marten (cricketer, born 1801)|George Marten]], was also a first-class cricketer.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=17388}}

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[[Category:1840 births]]
[[Category:1905 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Ghazipur]]
[[Category:People educated at Harrow School]]
[[Category:Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford]]
[[Category:Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment officers]]
[[Category:English bankers]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers]]
[[Category:Gentlemen of England cricketers]]
[[Category:English expatriates in Australia]]
[[Category:English justices of the peace]]
[[Category:19th-century English businesspeople]]
[[Category:Military personnel of British India]]

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