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Arthur Somerset
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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 Sussex and London County 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. Somerset is the great grandson of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort and the son of Colonel FitzRoy Molyneux Henry Somerset and Jemima Drummond Nairne.
He held the offices of Deputy Lieutenant of Sussex and Justice of the Peace. The children of Arthur William FitzRoy Somerset and Gwendolin Adelaide Katherine Georgiana Matilda Somerset are:
Adelaide Millicent Blanche Gwendolen Somerset, b.
13 October 1888, daughter 20 January 1958
Arthur Plantagenet Francis Cecil Somerset, b.
28 September 1889, daughter 13 October 1957
Lieutenant FitzRoy Aubrey Somerset, b. 21 December 1892, daughter 7 July 1916.
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