Robert
Barker |
Hertfordshire Rangers FC
& Wanderers FC
1 appearance, 0 goals 0 goals against one clean sheet
P 1 W 0 D 1 L 0 F 0:
A 0
50% successful
1872
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Robert Barker |
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Despite Alcock's Annuals
and newspaper reports calling this one RC Barker... there is no 'C' |
Birth
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Saturday,
19 June 1847 at The Rectory
in Wouldham, Kent |
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registered in Malling July-September 1847 |
"BARKER―June
19, at the Rectory, Wouldham, the lady of the Rev. Alleyne Barker, of a
son." - The Kentish Gazette, Tuesday, 29 June 1847 |
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According
to the 1851 census, Robert is the middle child of five, to parents Alleyne Higgs and Marianne (née Burminister). His father
is the Rector of Wouldham, so they all live at The Rectory in Wouldham [left]. They have five
servants. |
According
to the 1861 census, Robert's family are now in Watford, his father now
the Vicar of Rickmansworth. All living in Church Street, Rickmansworth. Robert
is not with them in the census. |
According to the 1871 census, Robert is now
living with the rest of his family in Church Street, Rickmansworth. His
occupation is stated as a Civil Engineer. |
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According
to the 1881 census, Robert is still in Church Street, and still a Civil
Engineer. His mother had died in the previous ten years. |
According to the 1891 census,
Robert, still a Civil Engineer, is living with two of his older sisters,
Fanny and Augusta, at Brierry Close, in Croxley Green, Rickmansworth. |
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According to the 1901 census, Robert is
boarding with the Quick's at 100 Warwick Street, in St George Hanover
Square, London. |
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According to the 1911 census, Robert is still
boarding at 100 Warwick Street, although he is here on his own.... Still
a Civil Engineer for the South Eastern & Chatham Railway. |
Death |
Thursday, 11 November 1915, at Briery Close, Croxley
Green, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire |
aged 68 years 149 days |
registered in Watford October-December 1915 |
"BARKER.―Nov 11th, at his residence, Briery Close, Croxley Green, Robert
Barker, son of the late Rev. Alleyne H, Barker, Vicar of Rickmansworth,
aged 68 years. Deeply loved and mourned." - The
Advertiser, Friday, 26
November 1915 |
Probate |
"BARKER
Robert of the Briery Close Croxley Green Rickmansworth
Hertfordshire died 11
November 1915 Probate London 11
January to
Richard Tesdale Dewe esquire the reverend Charles Alleyne Hutchinson and
the reverend Francis Ernest Hutchinson clerks.
Effects £19011 8s. 8d."
[2019 equivalent: £1,666,095] |
Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &
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Playing Career |
Club(s) |
After leaving school, he joined Hertfordshire
Rangers FC to concentrate on "soccer". He also made occasional appearances for
Westminster School AFC and Wanderers FC. |
Club honours |
None |
Individual honours |
Middlesex
FA, Kent FA |
Height/Weight |
not known |
Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
England Career |
Player number |
One of eleven who became the
first
players (one) to appear for England. Generally
regarded as the first player to play for England, as his is the first name
on the teamsheet.
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Position(s) |
Goalkeeper/Forward;
described by Douglas Lamming as a utility
player.
First goalkeeper to appear. |
Only match |
No. 1,
30 November 1872,
Scotland 0 England
0,
a
friendly match at The West of Scotland Cricket Ground, Hamilton Crescent,
Partick, Glasgow, aged 25 years
164 days. |
Individual honours |
Barker was one of the umpire's in the third unofficial
international match between England and Scotland in February 1871, as well
as England reserve. |
Distinctions |
"Barker was chosen (to
play in goal) because he was the biggest and slowest player in the England
team and because his rugby experience and handling of the ball would come
in useful" |
Beyond England |
A civil engineer by profession (MICE
1889), he was at different times Chief Assistant Engineer to the London,
Chatham & Dover Railway and the South Eastern Railway. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.24. |