Robert Somervell

{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2016}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Robert Somervell

| image =

| country =

| fullname = Robert Cooke Somervell

| birth_date = {{birth date|1892|5|18|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand

| death_date = {{death date and age|1967|6|8|1892|5|18|df=yes}}

| death_place = Auckland, New Zealand

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling =

| role =

| club1 = Auckland

| year1 = {{nowrap|1911/12–1921/22}}

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 9

| runs1 = 270

| bat avg1 = 19.28

| 100s/50s1 = 0/2

| top score1 = 74*

| deliveries1 = 254

| wickets1 = 3

| bowl avg1 = 59.66

| fivefor1 = 0

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 1/21

| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–

| date = 9 April

| year = 2021

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38426.html Cricinfo

}}

Robert Somervell (18 May 1892 – 8 June 1967) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played eight first-class matches for Auckland between 1911 and 1922.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38426.html |title=Robert Somervell |access-date=21 June 2016 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}

Somervell was a batsman. He toured Australia with the New Zealand team in 1913-14, but made a pair in the only first-class match he played on the tour.Don Neely & Richard Payne, Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894–1985, Moa, Auckland, 1986, pp. 53–56. His highest first-class score was 74 not out for Auckland against Hawke's Bay in 1912–13.{{cite web |title=Hawke's Bay v Auckland 1912-13 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8947.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=8 April 2021}}

Somervell married Lulu Bates in the Auckland suburb of Devonport in March 1918.{{cite journal |title=Weddings |journal=Auckland Star |date=10 April 1918 |page=3 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19180410.2.16.2}}