Arthur Haythorne Studd was an English first-class cricketer, painter and art collector.
10 Facts About Arthur Studd
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The son of Edward Studd and his second wife, Dorothy, he was born in November 1863 at Billesdon, Leicestershire.
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Arthur Studd was educated at Eton College, before going up to King's College, Cambridge.
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Arthur Studd graduated from Cambridge in 1888, having played three first-class matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club during his final year, in addition to making a fourth appearance for the MCC in 1888.
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In five first-class matches, Arthur Studd scored 104 runs with a high score of 47.
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Arthur Studd played minor matches for Hampshire in 1888, then considered a second-class county.
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Arthur Studd met and befriended Paul Gauguin in 1890 and in 1892 he met the artist James McNeill Whistler, with the two becoming neighbours in 1894 when they moved to Chelsea, London.
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Arthur Studd later acquired a number of Whistler's works, leaving them to the Tate Gallery.
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Arthur Studd himself exhibited his own art regularly in the first decade of the 1900s, with some his works held by the Tate Gallery.
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Arthur Studd's brothers, known colloquially as the Arthur Studd brothers, all played first-class cricket.