Arnold James Fothergill (26 August 1854 – 1 August 1932) was an English cricket

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er.

Despite having been born in Newcastle upon Tyne

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, Northumberland

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, Fothergill played first-class cricket

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 for Somerset County Cricket Club

Somerset County Cricket Club

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 between 1882

1882 English cricket season

-Champion County:* Lancashire, Nottinghamshire -Events:8 April . Formation of Warwickshire CCC at a meeting in Coventry.10 May. Formation of Durham CCC....

 and 1884

1884 English cricket season

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. Fothergill then played some games for the Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

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 to 1886

1886 English cricket season

-Events:Somerset did not play any other first-class counties and dropped out of the Championship until 1891.Hampshire ceased to be a first-class county after years of difficult circumstances and poor results. They did play matches against Surrey and Sussex in 1886 but these matches are not...

 and some games for the non-first-class minor county, Northumberland.

Fothergill was a fine left-arm medium-paced bowler, who as a batsman could hit hard down the order. When England

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 sent a cricket tour to South Africa in 1888-89 they decided to send a weak squad as South Africa were not reckoned to be a strong side. The two matches against representative South African sides, which were easily won by England, were later recognised as Test match

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es, thereby, in retrospect, giving Fothergill two Test caps. These were the last first-class games Fothergill played. He died in Sunderland, County Durham

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