Arthur Wyeth

{{Short description|Australian cricket umpire (1887–1971)}}

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Arthur Edwin Wyeth (3 July 1887 at Melbourne, Victoria – 18 October 1971 at Brisbane, Queensland) was a cricket Test match umpire.{{cite web |title=Arthur Wyeth |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/arthur-wyeth-8416 |publisher=Cricinfo |access-date=28 February 2025}}

Wyeth umpired one Test match in 1931 between Australia and the West Indies at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground on 16 January to 20 January 1931. Australia won by an innings with Don Bradman scoring 223, Bill Ponsford a century, and Clarrie Grimmett taking 9 wickets for the match.{{cite web |title=3rd Test, Brisbane, Jan 16 - 20 1931, West Indies tour of Australia |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/west-indies-tour-of-australia-1930-31-61904/australia-vs-west-indies-3rd-test-62587/full-scorecard |website=Cricinfo |access-date=19 April 2021}} Wyeth's partner, James Orr, was also standing in his only Test match. Wyeth umpired eight first-class matches, all of them in Brisbane, between 1920 and 1931. The Test match was his last first-class match.{{cite web |title=Arthur Wyeth as Umpire in First-Class Matches |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/36/36210/Umpire_in_First-Class_Matches.html|website=CricketArchive |access-date=19 April 2021}}

Wyeth married Nellie Bishop in Brisbane in November 1914.{{cite journal |title=Weddings |journal=Brisbane Courier |date=2 December 1914 |page=10 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/19999395}} He worked as a draper's assistant.{{cite web |title=Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 |url=https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/1207/records/175973043 |website=Ancestry.com.au |access-date=28 February 2025}}