Arthur Marsden (28 October 1880 – 31 July 1916) was an English

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er who played first-class cricket for

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

in 1910. Marsden was born in

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the son of William E. Marsden, a railway engine driver, and his wife Eliza, Marsden made one appearance for Derbyshire, in the 1910 season, against

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in a heavy defeat for the team. Marsden, a right-handed batsman, appeared as an opening batsman in the first innings of the match when he was out for a duck, and scored 6 in his second innings slightly lower down the order. Marsden died in St. Pancras at the age of 35 from wounds he had suffered during

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