Arthur Somers-Cocks
Cricket Player
1870 – 1923
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Who was Arthur Somers-Cocks?
Arthur Somers-Cocks was an English-born West Indian cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right arm fast bowler who played ten first-class games for Barbados around the turn of the twentieth century. Nine of these matches came between the 1894-95 and 1896-97 seasons, with a final appearance in 1901-02.
Playing against R. S. Lucas' XI at Bridgetown in February 1895, Somers-Cocks achieved a career-best innings return of 8-99. In 1896/97 he took a hat-trick against A Priestley's XI at the same ground.
He was born in Bredbury, Stockport; he died aged 52 at Harrison College, Bridgetown.
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