Arthur Thomas Myers

Arthur Thomas Myers ( born April 16, 1851 in Keswick, † January 10, 1894 in London) was a British physician, cricket and tennis player.

Life

Myers was born in 1851 in Keswick, northern England. He attended Cheltenham College and then studied medicine at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was captain of the cricket team. In the season of 1870, he also played his only first-class match against the MCC as a batsman. As a player, he took part in the 1878 second edition of the tournament of Wimbledon and reached the quarter-finals. He was the first player who used the overhead surcharge. The following year he played at Wimbledon again, but did not get beyond the second round. In addition, he was described as an avid mountaineer.

After graduating in 1881 he worked at St George's Hospital in London and regularly published essays on various medical topics, where he later focused on nervous diseases. Myers, who himself suffered from epilepsy, dealt with this healing methods using hypnosis.

He died in 1894 at the age of only 42 years in London's Marylebone.

Source

• Obituary in the British Medical Journal, January 27, 1894, p 223