Arthur Somerset senior

Who was Arthur Somerset senior?

Arthur William FitzRoy Somerset was an English first class cricketer. Though hailing from Chatham, Kent, Somerset moved to 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.

Somerset played 48 games for the Sussex and London Counties Cricket Clubs between 1891 and 1906. As a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm fast bowler, he scored 1,221 runs at a batting average of 20.01 and took two wickets at 26.50 runs per wicket. He also captained Worthing Cricket Club. He died at Castle Goring aged 81.