Arthur Somerset

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. 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.

Somerset was a batsman who also bowled fast occasionally in his early years and kept wicket occasionally later.

Family

Somerset was the son of Colonel FitzRoy Molyneux Henry Somerset and Jemima Drummond Nairne. He was the great-grandson of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort through his seventh son Lord William Somerset.

He married his second cousin Gwendolin Adelaide Katherine Georgiana Matilda Somerset, daughter of Sir Alfred Plantagenet Frederick Charles Somerset (only son of Lord John Somerset) and Adelaide Harriet Brooke-Pechell, on 25 July 1887. They had two children:

Adelaide Millicent Blanche Gwendolin Somerset (13 October 1888 – 20 January 1958) Arthur Plantagenet Francis Cecil Somerset (28 September 1889 – 13 October 1957) Lieutenant FitzRoy Aubrey Somerset (21 December 1892 – 7 July 1916), killed in action in the First World War

He held the offices of Deputy Lieutenant of Sussex and Justice of the Peace.