George Lankham (6 September 1830 – 4 November 1908) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played three first-class matches for Auckland in 1873/74.
Lankham was born in Ireland in 1830 before the family moved to Scotland. He went to New Zealand in the 1850s. A round-arm medium-pace bowler, he was a member of Auckland's first first-class team, which toured the country in November–December 1873, winning all three first-class matches.T. W. Reese, New Zealand Cricket: 1841–1914, Simpson & Williams, Christchurch, 1927, pp. 169–71.
Lankham and his son William both played in the Auckland team against the touring Australians in February 1881. William had a short but successful cricket career for Auckland before dying of tuberculosis aged 24.
Lankham died after an illness at his son-in-law's house in Devonport, Auckland, in November 1908, aged 78.
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