Arthur William Fulcher (7 May 1855 – 17 May 1932) was an English yacht racer and

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Early life

He was born at Pau,

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, the second son of Captain Edward Fulcher of the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers and educated at

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. He served for twenty years in the Yeomanry, for thirteen years in the West Kent Yeomanry, and seven years in the Suffolk Hussars, retiring with the rank of Honorary Major in 1897. He lived at

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in Hampshire.

Cricket career

Fulcher was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm slow. He made his first-class debut for

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against

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in 1878. He made six further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against

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in 1887. In his seven first-class matches, he scored a total of 156 runs at an

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of 14.18, with a high score of 44

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.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 189–190.
Available online
at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 21 December 2020.)

Yachting career

He started yachting in 1886 with the 62-ton schooner ''Eurelia'', followed by the ''Roseneath'', a 95-ton auxiliary schooner, the 119-ton schooner ''Algeria'', and the 27-ton yawl ''Grade''. In 1898 he built a new ''Roseneath'', a 54-ton schooner, with which he competed for the Queen's Cup in 1899 and won the Emperor's Cup in 1899 and 1900. In 1905 he sold the ''Roseneath'', and bought the

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''Xenia'', which he rechristened the ''Kestrel'', converting her into a ketch.

Private life

He died at

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in London in 1932 aged 77.Arthur Fulcher

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. Retrieved 7 August 2022. His son, Eric, also played first-class cricket.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fulcher, Arthur 1855 births 1932 deaths People from Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques People educated at Westminster School, London English cricketers Kent cricketers English male sailors (sport) People from Appleshaw Cricketers from Hampshire Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry officers 19th-century British Army personnel Volunteer Force officers British Yeomanry officers