Although he did not make the Eton side, Field was a keen amateur cricketer and played for a wide variety of sides, occasionally playing alongside his brother Barclay. He played for Oxford University sides, although not in first-class matches, and later for MCC and sides such as Harlequins, Old Etonians and Sevenoaks Vine.[2] He played in five first-class matches, making his senior debut for a Gentlemen of Kent and Sussex side during the 1856 Canterbury Cricket Week. Three of his four first-class matches for Kent were played on Higher Common Ground at Tunbridge Wells; he made his highest first-class score of 11 runs on the ground in his final senior appearance in 1859.[2][8]
The same year Field attended the meeting which established a new Kent County Cricket Club at Maidstone, proposing the first President. He served on the management committee of the club between 1865 and 1870 and his father and brother, Barclay Field, were both members of the club.[2]
Field died in July 1901 at Ashurst Park. He was aged 67.[1] A number of houses on the Ashurst Park estate were built during Field's ownership and bear his initials.[11] His wife memorialised him through a number of endowments to the local church, St Peter's at Fordcombe where many of the Hardinge family are buried.[12]
Notes
^Emily Hardinge was 41 years younger than Field at the time of their marriage in 1893. She died in 1960 aged 99.[9]
^The couple had at least two sons, one of whom died during the First World War.[10] Carlaw mentions only one son.[2]
^Stapylton HC (1884) Eton school lists from 1791 to 1877, with notes and index, p.232. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co. (Available online. Retrieved 3 July 2020.)
^ abFoster J (1884) The royal lineage of our noble and gentle families, p.125. London: Hazell, Watson and Viney. (Available online. Retrieved 3 July 2020.)
^George Field, Sir Francis Ronalds and his Family. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
^George Field, CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 July 2020. (subscription required)