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Horace
Bailey |
Leicester Fosse FC
5 appearances,
3 goals against
two clean
sheets, one penalty conceded
P 5 W 5 D 0 L 0 F
35:
A
3
100% successful
1908
captain: none
minutes played: 450 |
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Timeline |
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Corporal Horace Peter Bailey |
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Birth |
Sunday, 3 July 1881 at
33 London Road, Litchurch, Derby, Derbyshire |
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registered in Derby July-September 1881 |
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Education |
Attended St. James' Church Boys
School, Derby |
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According to the 1881 census, Sarah is pregnant with
the child who will become Horace. Her husband, Peter, is an Iron and Brass
Moulder, and they live at 33 London Road in Litchurch, with their eldest
sibling, Lilly. |
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According to the 1891
census, Horace P. is the second oldest of four children to his parents. They live at 36 Dairy House Road in Litchurch. His father is a Foreman at the Iron Moulders. |
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According to the 1901
census, Horace was now a Railway Clerk, and now one of five children. No
other changes to the ten years previous. |
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According to the 1911 census,
as with the previous census record, Horace P. is still a Railway Clerk and
still living at 36 Dairy House Road. Although he is just one of the
four children remaining in the family home.
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Marriage |
to Minnie
Dorothy Smith, on Wednesday, 6 August 1913, at St John's Church, Hazelwood,
Derbyshire |
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registered in Belper July-September 1913 |
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Children |
Horace and Minnie Bailey have one son
together, Peter Raymond (b.5 February 1920) |
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His WW1 Army Records
state that Horace is living at 32 Portland Street, Derby, at the time of his
enlistment, 26 November 1915, to the Railway Operating Division of the
Royal Engineers. He demobilised in 1919 with the rank of Corporal due to
disability to The Shanty in Hazelwood.
His
father died 15 June 1918.
According to the 1921 census, Horace Peter, still a
railway clerk (for the Midland Railway Company) is now married to Minnie
Dorothy, and they have one son, Peter. They are visiting the home
of Minnie's parents at The Stanby in Hazelwood.
His mother died in
1933 |
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According to the 1939 register, Horace P., a railway
clerk, and Minnie D. remain married and are living at 39 Jennings Road in
St. Albans, with their son, Peter R..
Bedfordshire Electoral
Registers state Horace Bailey is at 3 Common Road for at least the final
two years of his life. |
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Death |
Monday, 1 August 1960
at 3 Common Road, Langford, Bedfordshire |
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aged
79 years 28 days |
registered in Biggleswade July-September 1960 |
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Obituary |
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Probate |
"BAILEY
Horace Peter
of 3 Common Road Langford
Bedfordshire
died 1 August 1960 Probate
Peterborough
14 September to Minnie Dorothy Bailey widow.
£1934 19s."
[2025 equivalent: £38,836]. |
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His wife,
Minnie, died mid-1962 |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Playing Career |
Club(s) |
He was a
goalkeeper who began his career in 1899 with Derby County FC reserves and
subsequently played for Crich FC,
Ripley Athletic FC, Leicester Imperial FC and Leicester Fosse FC, before
rejoining Derby County FC in April 1909. He assisted Blackburn Rovers FC
in August 1910 whilst their goalkeeper, Jimmy Ashcroft, recovered from an
eye injury.
He finished his career with spells at Stoke FC and Birmingham FC in
February 1911. Although a
good 'keeper', a number of disasters befell him, not least when he was on
the wrong end of a 12-0 defeat by Nottingham Forest FC when in goal for
Fosse. |
League honours
121 appearances |
Leicester Fosse FC 1907-09 68 appearances
debut (div
two): 9 September 1907 Leicester Fosse FC 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC 0.
Derby County FC 1910 three appearances
debut (division
two): 26 April 1910 Oldham Athletic FC 4 Derby County FC 0.
Birmingham FC 1911-13 thirty appearances
debut (division two):
4 February 1911 Birmingham FC 2 Leeds City FC 1.
last
(division two): 24 January 1913 Wolverhampton Wanderes FC 2 Birmingham FC
2.
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Club honours |
Football
League Division Two runners-up 1907-08 (33ᵃ), third place 1912-13
(9ᵃ); |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Also played
lawn tennis for Derbyshire. |
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Height/Weight |
5'
8¼" [1914]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
333rd player to
appear for England. 38th goalkeeper to appear. |
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Position(s) |
Goalkeeper |
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First match |
No. 93, 16 March 1908, Wales 1
England 7, a British Championship match at Cardiff Arms Park, Temperance Town, Cardiff, aged
26 years
257 days.
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Last match |
No. 98, 13 June 1908,
Bohemia 0 England 8, an end-of-season
Continental tour match at
Stadión Letná, Milady Horákové, Praha, aged
26 years 346 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1907-08; |
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Team honours |
British Championship shared 1907-08; |
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Individual honours |
England Amateur
(eight appearances). Great Britain 1908 Olympic Football
(Gold medal), Great Britain 1912 Olympic Football
(reserve, Gold medal). |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
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He worked as a rating official with the
Midland Railway. During
the First World War, he enlisted with the Royal Engineers 109th Railway
Company, reaching the rank of corporal, and was posted to Italy. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.18. |
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