Arthur Fortescue

Arthur Trosse Fortescue (7 April 1848 – 21 November 1899) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.

The son of William Blundell Fortescue, he was born in April 1848 at the Fallapit Estate near East Allington, Devon.

He played first-class cricket for Oxford until 1871, making a total of sixteen appearances.

He held various curacies until 1883, at which point he became the vicar of Hainton with Sixhills in Lincolnshire.

[4] Fortescue married Clara Harriet Pease in 1894, before dying at Marylebone in November 1899.