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Dick
Baugh |
Stafford Road Railway Works FC,
Wolverhampton Wanderers FC
2 appearances, 0 goals
P 2 W 2 D 0 L 0 F 15:
A 2
100% successful
1886-90
captain: none
minutes played: 180 |
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Timeline |
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Richard Baugh |
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Birth |
Sunday, 14 February 1864 in Barrow Hill, near Staveley, Chesterfield, Derbyshire |
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registered as Bough, in Chesterfield January-March 1864. |
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"R.BAUGH
was born at Staveley in Derbyshire, and went with his family to
Wolverhampton when he was seven years old." - Sporting Life,
25 March 1893 |
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According to the 1871 census,
Richard is the youngest of two children to Enoch and Sarah (née
Taylor), living at
Dudley Road in Wolverhampton. His father is a coal miner.
(His
mother died through 1875) |
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According to the 1881 census,
Richard, now a tin plate worker, is living with his widowed father with
his older sister, Elizabeth, in 58 Chapel Street, Wolverhampton. |
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According to the 1891 census,
Richard, now a Professional Footballer, is residing with his married
sister, Elizabeth Paskin, and her family, at 10 St Mary's Terrace in
Wolverhampton. |
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Marriage |
to Jemima Speak, in late 1894, in Wolverhampton |
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registered in Wolverhampton October-December 1894. |
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Children |
Dick and Jemima Baugh had six children together. Edith
(b.1895), Richard (b.6 March 1896), James (b.30
December 1898),
Thomas (b.4 November 1899) and Elsie Sarah (b.1901), another had born and died before 1911. |
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According to the 1901 census,
Richard, now married to Jemima, and with five children, Edith, Richard,
James, Thomas and Elsie, all live at 5 Wolverhampton Road in Moseley.
Richard is again, a tin and iron plate worker.
(His daughter, Elsie
Sarah, died
10 September 1904. His father died in
1906) |
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According to the 1911
census, Richard remains married and has four of his children are living with him at 170 Willenhall Road in Moseley.
Richard is still a sheet metal worker. |
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According to the 1921
census, Richard remains married and three of his children are living
with him at 39 Chapel Street in Moseley.
Richard is san out-of-work sheet metal worker. |
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Death |
Wednesday, 14 August 1929 in Moseley,
Staffordshire |
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aged 65 years 181 days |
registered in Wolverhampton July-September 1929. |
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Obituary |
"DICK BAUGH DEAD―Passing of a
Well-known Footballer
"Dick
Baugh, the former international and Wolverhampton Wanderers footballer,
died at Wolverhampton yesterday, aged 65. At the age of 17 Baugh was
playing regularly for Wolverhampton and four years later played for his
country. When the Wolverhampton team included no fewer than eight
internationals he was a prominent player. His last game was against
Sheffield Wednesday in the Cup Final of 1896. Baugh's son has played for
Wolverhampton and West Bromwich Albion." - Daily Herald,
Thursday, 15 August 1929
"Famous Footballer's Death.―The
death took place at Moseley village, on Wednesday, of Richard Baugh, who
for many years
was one of the best-known players in the
Wolverhampton Wanderers' team. Having learnt the game with St. Luke's, he
joined the Wanderers when he was 17, and in 1882-83 helped to win the
Wrekin Cup, now the Wolverhampton Charity Cup. For a short time he played
with the Stafford Road club, but in 1886-7 he was again with the
Wanderers. Mr. Baugh, who was 65 years of age, had been seriously ill for
three months." - Staffordshire Advertiser, Saturday,
17 August 1929 |
Funeral
Monday, 19 August 1922
Heath Town Church |
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"FOOTBALLER BURIED―Nine Colleagues of Dick Baugh Attend
"Nine of the 'Wolves' old players―contemporaries
of the late Dick Baugh, attended
Heath Town Church yesterday to pay a last tribute to a former comrade. The
nine club mates were Charles Mason, who as a back partnered Baugh, Arthur
Blackham, Tom Cliff, Enoch Hadley, Jack Baynton, Dick Danks, Hill
Griffith, Joe Copper and Arthur Pearson. The simple funeral was conducted
by the Rev T. W. Bensley, and the mourners included Ted Scott, another
contemporary who played with Stafford-road."
- Birmingham Daily Gazette,
Tuesday, 20 August 1929. |
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Jemima Baugh died in 1953 |
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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) |
"He has only played for Wolverhampton clubs—Rose Villa FC
[in 1880], Wolverhampton
Wanderers Reserves, Rangers
FC, Wanderers, Stafford-road [Railway Works FC],
and [Wolverhampton]
Wanderers..." FC days after his first England call-up, debuting for the Wolves
on 30 March 1886, where he remained until 1896, when he joined Walsall FC.
Baugh retired in 1897 with a knee injury.
- Sporting Life, 25 March 1893 |
League History
191 appearances, 1 goal |
Wolverhampton Wanderers FC 1888-96, 185 appearances, one goal
debut: 8 September 1888 Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC 1 Aston Villa FC 1.
Walsall FC 1896, six
appearances
debut (second division): 7 September 1896 Newton Heath FC
2 Walsall FC 0.
last (second division): 31 October 1896 Walsall FC 5
Loughborough FC 1. |
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Club honours |
Wrekin Cup winners 1882-83;
FA Cup
runners-up 1888-89
(6ᵃ), 1895-96 (6ᵃ), winners 1892-93 (5ᵃ);
Football League third place 1888-89 (22ᵃ); |
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Distinctions |
Father of Dickie Baugh
(Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, Cardiff City FC, West Bromwich Albion FC,
Exeter City FC & Kidderminster Harriers FC: 1918-33)
A
benefit match was played for Baugh between Wolverhampton Wanderers FC and
Aston Villa FC on 1 October 1894, raising £86 4s 3d. |
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Height/Weight |
5' 9½" 11st,
12lbs [1889],
5' 10", 13st
2lbs [1893]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & ENFA. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of
eight who became the 125th player (125) to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Left-back, right-back; |
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First match |
No. 26, 13 March
1886, Ireland 1 England 6, British Championship match at
Ulster
Cricket Ground, Ballynafeigh Park, Belfast, aged 22 years 27
days; |
Last match
4 years 2 days |
No. 38, 15 March
1890, Ireland 1 England 9, British Championship match at
Ulster
Cricket Ground, Ballynafeigh Park, Belfast,
aged 26 years 29
days; |
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Major tournaments |
British
Championship 1885-86, 1889-90; |
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Team honours |
British
Championship shared 1885-86, 1889-90; |
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Individual honours |
The Players (one appearance,
January 1886),
The South
(one appearance, January 1886); |
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Distinctions |
Died seven
days after John Bain |
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Beyond England |
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In the 1901 census, following Baugh's
retirement, he returned to his trained vocation of a tin and iron plate
worker. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.28./FindMyPast.com |
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The Numbers |
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parties |
Appearances |
comp. apps |
minutes |
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captain |
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2 |
2 |
180 |
0 |
none |
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The minutes here given
can only ever be a guideline and cannot therefore be accurate, only an
approximation. |
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P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
15 |
2 |
+13 |
0 |
0 |
7.5 |
1 |
100 |
+2 |
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Both of his matches were played in the British Championship
competition and at an away venue |
Tournament Record
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British Championship Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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BC 1885-86 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
1 |
+5 |
0 |
0 |
6.00 |
1.00 |
100.0 |
+1 |
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BC 1889-90 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
1 |
+8 |
0 |
0 |
9.00 |
1.00 |
100.0 |
+1 |
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BC
All |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
15 |
2 |
+13 |
0 |
0 |
7.50 |
1.00 |
100.0 |
+2 |
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All Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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BC |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
15 |
2 |
+13 |
0 |
0 |
7.50 |
1.00 |
100.0 |
+2 |
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2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
15 |
2 |
+13 |
0 |
0 |
7.5 |
1 |
100 |
+2 |
Match History
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