Arthur Sutthery

Arthur Melbourne Sutthery (25 March 1864 – 15 May 1937) was an English cricketer who played in 20 first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University and other amateur teams between 1886 and 1888. He was born at Clifton Reynes in Buckinghamshire and died at Chelsea, London in May 1937 aged 73.

The son of the vicar of Clifton Reynes, Sutthery was educated at Uppingham School, Oundle School and Jesus College, Cambridge.

As a cricketer, he was a right-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He achieved little in his first season of first-class cricket for Cambridge in 1886 and had lost his place in the first eleven before the University Match against Oxford University. Sutthery's reward was to be picked for the Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval 10 days later, one of the highlights of a non-Test season. At the end of the 1887 season, Sutthery also played in the North v South fixture, another of the great set-piece matches of the English cricket season. At the end of the 1888 season he again played in the North v South fixture and also appeared for South in the final match of the season against the Australians: it was his last first-class match.

Sutthery's later career is unclear. He was a schoolmaster at Exeter from 1889 to 1893, and was employed also as a master at Harrow School during the First World War. He is also recorded as having acted as a private tutor at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex and, having married a Scottish woman and moved to Scotland, he was associated with the Glasgow Herald newspaper.