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Arthur Somerset Senior
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."A. W. F. Somerset" '''', Spring Annual 1937, p. 90. After some years in Australia he returned to England in 1881, living in , a country house now in the town of in Sussex, and former home of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brompton, Kent
Brompton is a suburban village situated between the town centres of Gillingham and Chatham, lying adjacent to Chatham Dockyard in Medway, Kent, England. Its name means "a farmstead where broom grows" broom is a small yellow flowering shrub. Overview Brompton dates back to the late 17th century, and grew rapidly in the 18th century to accommodate the fast-growing dockyard workforce. It was a deliberately planned settlement, laid out by Thomas Rogers, Esquire, the owner of Westcourt Manor on whose demesne lands it was built. In the 1750s, with the building of the Chatham Lines to defend Chatham Dockyard, the village became completely surrounded by military establishments, limiting its ability to expand much beyond its original plan. When war with France recommenced in 1778, it was necessary to strengthen the dockyard defences. Fort Amherst and the Chatham Lines (defensive ditches) were improved and extended, and work was later begun on additional perimeter forts in Chatham an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Cricket Team In The West Indies In 1910–11
The sixth team of English cricketers toured the West Indies in the 1910–11 West Indian cricket season, 1910–11 season. For the first time the Marylebone Cricket Club, MCC organised the tour. The team was captained by Arthur Somerset senior, AWF Somerset and played a total of 12 matches, of which 11 are regarded as first-class cricket, first-class, between February and April 1911. The team A party of 11 was taken: * Arthur Somerset senior, AWF Somerset (captain) * George Brown (Hampshire cricketer), G Brown * Cecil Burton, DCF Burton * David S.G. Burton, DSG Burton * Herbert Gaussen, HL Gaussen * J. W. Hearne, JW Hearne * Bernard Holloway, BH Holloway * Sydney Smith (cricketer, born 1881), SG Smith * Arthur Somerset junior, APFC Somerset * Tom Whittington, TAL Whittington * Sailor Young, HI Young APFC Somerset was the son of AWF Somerset, who had toured the West Indies with Lord Brackley's XI cricket team in the West Indies in 1904–05, Lord Brackley's team six years earlier. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London County Cricketers
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sussex Cricketers
Sussex ( /ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English ''Sūþseaxe''; lit. ' South Saxons'; 'Sussex') is an area within South East England that was historically a kingdom and, later, a county. It includes the ceremonial counties of East Sussex and West Sussex. The area borders the English Channel to the south, and the ceremonial counties of Surrey to the north, Kent to the north-east, and Hampshire to the west. Sussex contains the city of Brighton and Hove and its wider city region, as well as the South Downs National Park and the National Landscapes of the High Weald and Chichester Harbour. Its coastline is long. The Kingdom of Sussex emerged in the fifth century in the area that had previously been inhabited by the Regni tribe in the Romano-British period. In about 827, shortly after the Battle of Ellendun, Sussex was conquered by Wessex. From 860 it was ruled by the kings of Wessex, and in 927 it became part of the Kingdom of England. By the Norman period, Sussex was su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricketers From Chatham, Kent
Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cricket), bails (small sticks) balanced on three stump (cricket), stumps. Two players from the Batting (cricket), batting team, the striker and nonstriker, stand in front of either wicket holding Cricket bat, bats, while one player from the Fielding (cricket), fielding team, the bowler, Bowling (cricket), bowls the Cricket ball, ball toward the striker's wicket from the opposite end of the pitch. The striker's goal is to hit the bowled ball with the bat and then switch places with the nonstriker, with the batting team scoring one Run (cricket), run for each of these swaps. Runs are also scored when the ball reaches the Boundary (cricket), boundary of the field or when the ball is bowled Illegal delivery (cricket), illegally. The fielding tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: The Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assassinate its leaders. * January 30 – The Moscow Trial initiated on January 23 is concluded. Thirteen of the defendants are Capital punishment, sentenced to death (including Georgy Pyatakov, Nikolay Muralov and Leonid Serebryakov), while the rest, including Karl Radek and Grigory Sokolnikov are sent to Gulag, labor camps and later murdered. They were i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1855 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city.' * January 5 – Ramón Castilla begins his third term as President of Peru. * January 23 ** The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in modern-day Minneapolis, a predecessor of the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge. ** The 8.2–8.3 Wairarapa earthquake claims between five and nine lives near the Cook Strait area of New Zealand. * January 26 – The Point No Point Treaty is signed in the Washington Territory. * January 27 – The Panama Railway becomes the first railroad to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. * January 29 – Lord Aberdeen resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, over the management of the Crimean War. * February 5 – Lord Palmerston becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * February 11 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia. * February 12 – Michigan State University (the "pioneer" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord John Somerset
Col. Lord John Thomas Henry Somerset (30 August 1787 – 3 October 1846) was a British Army officer and aristocrat from the House of Beaufort. He fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Early life and education Lord John was born at his father's house at 5 Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, the eighth son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort by Elizabeth Boscawen, daughter of Admiral of the Blue Edward Boscawen. His youngest brother was Field Marshal Lord Raglan. He was educated at Westminster School from 1802–4 and was in Clapham's House. Military career In August 1804, just shy of his 17th birthday, Somerset joined the 7th Light Dragoons as a cornet without purchase. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1805 and captain in 1806. In 1808, he joined the 23rd Light Dragoons. He fought in the Peninsular War; he fought at the Battle of Talavera on the 22nd, 27th, and 28th of July 1809. Somerset was transferred to the 23rd Regiment of Foot in 1813. He was promoted to brevet major in 1815, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Plantagenet Frederick Charles Somerset
Col. Sir Alfred Plantagenet Frederick Charles Somerset (5 September 1829 – 26 March 1915) was a British Army officer, coach driver, and aristocrat from the House of Beaufort. He was an influential resident in Enfield Town, and was a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex for 60 years. Family Somerset was born at Hempsted Court in Gloucestershire, the only surviving son of Col. Lord John Somerset and Lady Catherine Annesley, daughter of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris. His father was the eighth son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort by Elizabeth Boscawen; among his brothers was Field Marshal Lord Raglan, commander of the heavy cavalry at the Battle of Waterloo. Alfred's sister Frances was married to the banker James Whatman Bosanquet. Military career Somerset was gazetted in January 1847, at age 17, to the 52nd Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Four months later, he was transferred to the 13th Light Infantry, with which he served in Ireland, Scotland, and on foreign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord William Somerset
Rev. Lord William George Henry Somerset (2 September 1784 – 14 January 1851) was an Anglican cleric and aristocrat who was rector of the Woolaston Parish in the 1800s. He lived in an adjacent manor house now called The Old Rectory. Lord William was the seventh of nine sons of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort and Elizabeth Boscawen, daughter of the Hon. Edward Boscawen. He also had four sisters. He is buried in the St Andrews Church cemetery. Family He married Elizabeth Molyneux (d. 1843), daughter of Sir Thomas Molyneux, 5th Baronet on 29 June 1813. They had five children: *Col. Henry Charles Capel (20 Jun 1816-17 Jan 1905), married Alice Elizabeth O'Connell, daughter of Sir Maurice Charles O'Connell and granddaughter of Vice Adm. William Bligh. They had seven children. *Rev. William (3 Oct 1822-29 May 1902), who married Georgiana Amelia Darling and together had four sons. *FitzRoy Molyneux Henry (29 Dec 1823-22 Feb 1901), married firstly Jemima Drummond Nairne, and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
