Arthur Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers

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Lord Somers England (Eng)

Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Bowling type	unknown
First-class record
Matches	17
Runs scored	390
Batting average	13.44
100s/50s	0/1
Top score	52
Balls bowled	12
Wickets	0
Bowling average	-
5 wickets in innings	0
10 wickets in match	0
Best Bowling	-
Catches/Stumpings	10/0
First class debut: 21 June 1906 Last first class game: 5 June 1925 Source: CricInfo

Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers, KCMG, DSO, MC (20 March 1887, Freshwater, Isle of Wight–14 July 1944, Eastnor Castle, Hereford), son of Herbert Haldane Somers-Cocks by Blanche Margaret Standish Clogstoun, was a British administrator and served as the 16th Governor of the State of Victoria, Australia between 1926 and 1931.

He was appointed as Chief Scout of the British Empire in March 1941, on the death of Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement, who had been Chief Scout of the World. He served until his death in 1944. He was succeeded by Lord Rowallan.

Lord Somers married Daisy Finola Meeking in 1921 and had issue, an only daughter:

Hon. (Violet) Elizabeth Verena Somers-Cocks (1922-1986), who married Brigadier Benjamin Alexander Frederick Hervey-Bathurst (1920-1997), 2nd son of Sir Frederick Edward William Hervey-Bathurst, 5th Bt.

He was also an able cricketer: he made 115 for Charterhouse against Westminster as a schoolboy in 1904, and made his first-class debut two years later for MCC against Worcestershire. He rarely had enough time to play cricket, but in the 1920s he made a further 16 first-class appearances for Worcestershire, his highest score being 52 against Essex in May 1925. Lord Somers became both a vice-president of Worcestershire CCC and, in 1936, President of MCC.^[1]

He should not be confused with the Arthur Somers-Cocks who played ten games for Barbados around the turn of the twentieth century.

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^ Obituaries, 1944. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1945.

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Honorary Titles
Preceded by Sir John Richard Cottrell, 4th Bt.	Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire 1933–1944	Succeeded by Sir Richard Charles Cottrell, 5th Bt.
Political offices
Preceded by New government	Lord-in-Waiting 1924–1926	Succeeded by The Earl of Airlie
Government offices
Preceded by The Earl of Stradbroke	Governor of Victoria 1926–1931	Succeeded by The Baron Huntingfield
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Philip Cocks	Baron Somers 1899–1944	Succeeded by Arthur Somers-Cocks