Tommy Ryan (Australian footballer) explained

Tommy Ryan
Fullname:	Thomas Herbert Arrowsmith
Birth Date:	12 August 1873
Birth Place:	Sydney
Death Place:	Mont Park, Victoria
Originalteam:	Richmond City
Position:	Rover
Statsend:	1904
Years1:	1893, 1895–1896
Club1:	Richmond (VFA)
Games Goals1:	43 (14)
Years2:	1896
Club2:	Carlton (VFA)
Games Goals2:	1 (0)
Years3:	1899–1902
Club3:	Melbourne
Games Goals3:	55 (63)
Years4:	1904
Club4:	St Kilda
Games Goals4:	11 (8)
Games Goalstotal:	110 (85)
Careerhighlights:	VFL premiership player: 1900 Melbourne leading goalkicker: 1900

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

Death

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

References

• Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
• Pennings, Mark (2016), Origins of Australian Football: Victoria's early History: Volume 4: Tough Times: Victorian Football loses its Way, 1891 to 1896, Brunswick, Victoria: Grumpy Monks Publishing.

External links

• • • Tommy Ryan, at Demonwiki.
• Jeremiah "Tommy" Ryan, at Blueseum.
• Tommy Ryan, at The VFA Project.
• Thomas Ryan, at Tigerland Archive (VFA PLayers).

Notes and References

1. News: 9 May 1905 . Divorced couple in court . 21 February 2024 . . Victoria, Australia . 7 . National Library of Australia . 18,350.
2. No doubt following his father, William Alexander Arrowsmith, the famous Shakespearian actor, known professionally as "William Ryan".
3. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197387079 Deaths: Arrowsmith, The Age, (Saturday, 7 October 1911), p.5.
4. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1692900 Deaths: Arrowsmith, The Argus, (Monday, 19 April 1920), p.1.
5. Births Deaths and Marriages New South Wales: Registration No.2016/1873.
6. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245600420 Links with the Past: Actresses of the Old School, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Tuesday, 27 April 1920), p.5.
7. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article234217428 Her Last Curtain, Smith's Weekly, (Saturday, 15 May 1920), p.20.
8. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221527392 Men and Women, The (Sydney) Sun, (Monday, 9 October 1911), p.6.
9. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222798955 Arrowsmith v. Arrowsmith, The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 26 November 1904), p.23.
10. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130162722 Angry Arrowsmiths, The (Melbourne) Truth, (Saturday, 16 September 1916), p.3.
11. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205409428 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. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9508147 Football, The Argus, (Thursday, 4 May 1899), p.10.
14. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202618165 Melbourne v. St. Kilda, The Age, (Monday, 15 May 1899), p.7.
15. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page18984985 The Victorian Team (photograph), The Adelaide Observer, (Saturday, 5 July 1902), p.26
16. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56555758 Interstate Football, The (Adelaide) Register, (Friday, 27 June 1902), p.2.
17. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10317742 Migratory Footballers, The Argus, (Thursday, 5 May 1904), p.9.
18. Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria: Registration No.12354/1948.
19. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206900451 Deaths: Arrowsmith, The Age, (Monday, 30 August 1948), p.2.