Arthur Somerset Sr.

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.

[1] 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.

[1] He played 48 games of first-class cricket between 1891 and 1913, some of them in England for Sussex and other teams.

They had two children:[4] He held the offices of Deputy Lieutenant of Sussex and Justice of the Peace.