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| Full name | Arthur William FitzRoy Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 September 1855 Brompton, Chatham, Kent, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 8 January 1937 (aged 81) Castle Goring, Worthing, Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Arthur Somerset junior (son) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 25 July 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arthur William FitzRoy Somerset (20 September 1855 – 8 January 1937) was an English first-class cricketer.
Somerset was born in Chatham, Kent, and educated at Wellington College, Berkshire.[1] After some years in Australia he returned to England in 1881, living in Castle Goring, a country house now in the town of Worthing in Sussex, and former home of Sir Bysshe Shelley, grandfather of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. He was well known for his hospitality at Castle Goring.[1] He died there in January 1937, aged 81.[2]
Somerset was a batsman who also bowled fast occasionally in his early years and kept wicket occasionally later.[1] He played 48 games of first-class cricket between 1891 and 1913, some of them in England for Sussex and other teams. Most of his first-class cricket was played on three tours of the West Indies: with Lord Brackley's XI in 1904–05, and on two Marylebone Cricket Club tours which he also captained, in 1910–11 and 1912–13. His highest score was 68 not out against Jamaica on the 1904–05 tour.[3]