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Tommy Ryan (Australian footballer)

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Tommy Ryan
Personal information
Full name Thomas Herbert Arrowsmith
Date of birth (1873-08-12)12 August 1873
Place of birth Sydney
Date of death 29 August 1948(1948-08-29) (aged 75)
Place of death Mont Park, Victoria
Original team(s) Richmond City
Position(s) Rover
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1893, 1895–1896 Richmond (VFA) 43 (14)
1896 Carlton (VFA) 1 (0)
1899–1902 Melbourne 55 (63)
1904 St Kilda 11 (8)
Total 110 (85)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1904.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Thomas Herbert Arrowsmith (12 August 1873 – 29 August 1948), also known as Tommy Ryan,[1][2] as was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family

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The son of William Alexander Arrowsmith (1827–1911),[3] and Henrietta Arrowsmith (1832–1920), née Hull,[4] Thomas Herbert Arrowsmith was born in Sydney on 12 August 1873.[5]

Both his parents were well-regarded, experienced actors; his mother had been known professionally in the 1850s and 1860s as "Henrietta Montrose",[6][7] and his father, a Shakespearian actor, had been known professionally as "William Ryan".[8]

He married twice: to Martha Elizabeth Hollman (1878–1936) in 1897 (they were divorced in 1905),[9] and to Blanche Stella Dolphin (1884–1952), on 15 February 1913.[10][11]

Football

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Melbourne Football team 1900.
Tommy Ryan, extreme right, front row.

Ryan, a rover and forward, spent 1893, 1895 and 1896 playing in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) for both Carlton and Richmond.[12]

Melbourne (VFL)

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On 3 May 1899, he was cleared from Richmond to Melbourne.[13]

On his VFL debut, Ryan kicked five goals as Melbourne defeated St Kilda by 93 points at the MCG on 13 May 1899.[14]

He was the club's leading goal-kicker in their premiership year of 1900 with 24 goals, one of those in the 1900 VFL Grand Final which he played from a forward pocket.

VFL

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He was part of the VFL team that played Interstate Football against South Australia, in Adelaide, on 26 June 1902.[15][16]

St Kilda (VFL)

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On 4 May 1904 he was cleared from Melbourne to St Kilda.[17]

Death

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He died on 29 August 1948, at Mont Park, Victoria.[18][19]

Notes

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  1. ^ "Divorced couple in court". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 18, 350. Victoria, Australia. 9 May 1905. p. 7. Retrieved 21 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ No doubt following his father, William Alexander Arrowsmith, the famous Shakespearian actor, known professionally as "William Ryan".
  3. ^ Deaths: Arrowsmith, The Age, (Saturday, 7 October 1911), p.5.
  4. ^ Deaths: Arrowsmith, The Argus, (Monday, 19 April 1920), p.1.
  5. ^ Births Deaths and Marriages New South Wales: Registration No.2016/1873.
  6. ^ Links with the Past: Actresses of the Old School, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Tuesday, 27 April 1920), p.5.
  7. ^ Her Last Curtain, Smith's Weekly, (Saturday, 15 May 1920), p.20.
  8. ^ Men and Women, The (Sydney) Sun, (Monday, 9 October 1911), p.6.
  9. ^ Arrowsmith v. Arrowsmith, The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 26 November 1904), p.23.
  10. ^ Angry Arrowsmiths, The (Melbourne) Truth, (Saturday, 16 September 1916), p.3.
  11. ^ Deaths: Arrowsmith, The Age, (Monday, 12 May 1952), p.7.
  12. ^ In 1894 he returned to Richmond City, and resumed his career at Richmond in 1895 (Pennings, 2016, pp. 323, 397, 463).
  13. ^ Football, The Argus, (Thursday, 4 May 1899), p.10.
  14. ^ Melbourne v. St. Kilda, The Age, (Monday, 15 May 1899), p.7.
  15. ^ The Victorian Team (photograph), The Adelaide Observer, (Saturday, 5 July 1902), p.26: Tommy Ryan is second from left, front row.
  16. ^ Interstate Football, The (Adelaide) Register, (Friday, 27 June 1902), p.2.
  17. ^ Migratory Footballers, The Argus, (Thursday, 5 May 1904), p.9.
  18. ^ Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria: Registration No.12354/1948.
  19. ^ Deaths: Arrowsmith, The Age, (Monday, 30 August 1948), p.2.

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