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Albert
Barrett |
Fulham
FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 F 3:
A 0
100% successful
1929
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Albert Frank Barrett |
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Birth |
11 November 1903 in West Ham, Stratford, Essex [registered in
West Ham, December 1903]. |
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Baptism |
24 July 1904 at All Saints' Church in West Ham |
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According to the 1911 census,
Albert is the youngest of three sons, with a younger sister, to George
William and Frances Elizabeth (née Perkins). They live at 50 Ham Park
Road in the West Ham area of Stratford. His father is a wallpaper printer. |
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According to the 1921 census,
Albert is an accountancy clerk and is the middle of fie children still
living at home with their parents at 50 Ham Park Road.
According to passenger lists, Barrett, along with other footballers, was
part of a tour of South Africa that returned to Southampton on 6 August
1929 from Cape Town on board the SS Arundel Castle. His address was stated
as 50 Ham Park Road, Stratford. |
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Marriage |
to Eva M. Lilley in 1930 [registered in West Ham, March 1930].
They had two children, Brian F. (b.1931) and Neville A. (b.1932). |
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According to the 1939 register, Albert F. owns
a shop that is newsagents and tobacconists/confectioners, as well as sells
medicines and makes motor coach bookings, and he is married to Eva M., and
they live at 89 Levett Gardens in Ilford. |
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Death |
8 December 1989
in Cape Town, South Africa, aged
86 years 27 days
[no record found]. |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
Played schoolboy football in West Ham, including Fairbairn House
FC, an East End Settlement club, and then Leytonstone FC and Middlesex Wanderers
FC in 1921. In 1923, Barrett signed amateur forms with West Ham United FC,
but he did not make any appearances. He signed
similar forms with Southampton FC in 1924/25, where he made a
single league appearance. It was at Fulham FC that he signed his
professional contract, in June 1925. Despite an attempt by Manchester City
FC and Tottenham Hotspur FC to sign him in February 1929, Barrett remained
at Craven Cottage until he retired in 1937,
having made 388 league appearances, scoring sixteen times. |
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Club honours |
Football
League Division Three (South) winners 1931-32; |
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Individual honours |
FA Charity Shield runners-up with Amateurs 1924; |
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Distinctions |
Appointed chairman
of the Players' and Trainers' Union on 24 August 1936. He was one of the
first players to call for full-time referee's, back in February 1937. |
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Height/Weight |
5'
10", 11st.
5lbs [1929]. |
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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 |
One of two who became the 545th
players (545) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Half-back |
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Only match |
No. 168,
19 October 1929, Ireland 0 England 3, a British
Championship match at
Windsor Park, Donegall Avenue, Belfast, aged 25 years
342 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British
Championship 1929-30; |
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Team honours |
British
Championship winners 1929-30; |
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Individual honours |
England Amateurs
(four appearances), England Schoolboy
(one appearance). FA Tour of South Africa 1929 |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
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Continued to work as an accountant after
turning professional. In the years following WW2, he was the secretary of
wholesale firm in Romford market after the war and emigrated to South
Africa in 1954. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.26. |
