Tommy Ryan (Australian footballer)

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
VFL premiership player: 1900 Melbourne leading goalkicker: 1900
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).

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]

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

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.

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

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

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

• 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. ISBN 978-0-646-93604-8

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tommy Ryan (Australian footballer).

• Tommy Ryan's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Tommy Ryan at AustralianFootball.com
• Tommy Ryan, at Demonwiki.
• Jeremiah "Tommy" Ryan, at Blueseum.
• Tommy Ryan, at The VFA Project.
• Thomas Ryan, at Tigerland Archive (VFA PLayers).

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