Arthur Groves

{{short description|English footballer}}

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{{Use British English|date=April 2016}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Arthur Groves

| image =

| fullname = Arthur Groves

| birth_date = {{birth date|1907|9|27|df=y}}

| birth_place = Killamarsh, England

| death_date =

| position = Forward

| years1 = |clubs1 = Langwith Colliery

| years2 = 1927–1928 |clubs2 = Halifax Town |caps2 = 30 |goals2 = 6

| years3 = 1928–1932 |clubs3 = Blackburn Rovers |caps3 = 65 |goals3 = 26

| years4 = 1933–1935 |clubs4 = Derby County |caps4 = 64 |goals4 = 17

| years5 = 1935–1938 |clubs5 = Portsmouth |caps5 = 80 |goals5 = 13

| years6 = 1939 |clubs6 = Stockport County |caps6 = 2 |goals6 = 0

| years7 = – |clubs7 = Atherstone Town |caps7 = |goals7 =

| years8 = – |clubs8 = Heanor Athletic |caps8 = |goals8 =

| totalcaps = 241 | totalgoals = 62

}}

Arthur Groves (27 September 1907 – 27 September 1979) was an English footballer who played in The Football League for Halifax Town, Blackburn Rovers, Derby County [http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;DRBY007939&pos=17&action=zoom&id=37201 (£500 transfer fee)], Portsmouth [http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;DRBY007939&pos=17&action=zoom&id=37201 (£1,500 transfer fee)] and Stockport County. He also played for Atherstone Town. He was born in Killamarsh.{{cite book|author=Michael Joyce|title=The Football League player's records 1888 to 1939|date=October 2004 |isbn=1899468676}}

His son, John Groves, played for Luton Town and Bournemouth in the nineteen-fifties and nineteen-sixties. Arthur's grandson is the Australian-based darts player, Loz Ryder.