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Joe
Beverley |
Blackburn Rovers FC
3 appearances, 0 goals
P 3 W 2 D 0 L 1 F 12:
A 2
67% successful
1884
captain: none
minutes played: 270 |
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Timeline |
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Joseph Beverley |
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Birth |
Wednesday, 12 November 1856 at 13 Butler
Street, St. John's, in Blackburn, Lancashire |
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registered in
Blackburn October-December 1856 |
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Education |
Attended St. John's School. |
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According to the 1861 census,
four year-old Joseph is the youngest of two sons. He and George are the
children of William and Lavinia (née Loder). His father is a Chelsea Pensioner,
his mother a midwife. and they all live at 13 Butler Street in Blackburn. |
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According to the 1871 census,
Joseph is still the younger of two sons, with a different older brother,
Canadian-born Samuel. They all live in 37 Charlotte Street in Blackburn.
(His father died in early 1874) |
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Marriage |
to Mary Ann
Gabbott, in late-1877 in Blackburn |
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registered in
Blackburn October-December 1877 |
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Children |
Joe and Mary Beverley had six children together. Lavinia
(b.1879), Elizabeth (b.1882), William James
(b.6 September 1884), Eleanor Maude (b.18
September 1890), Samuel George (b.2 October 1892), Ralph Edward (b.1
December 1896). |
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According to the 1881 census,
Joseph is now married to Mary Ann. They live at 8 Balaclava Street
in Blackburn. Joseph is a manufacturers clerk. |
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"Joe became a Benedict when very young, and is the proud
possessor
of a family of three bairns. He now resides at 72, Anvil-street,
Blackburn." - Blackburn
Standard, Saturday, 23 January
1886. |
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According to the 1891 census,
Joseph is still married with four children, Lavinia, Elizabeth, William
and Eleanor, living at 24 Walter Street in Blackburn. He is a
mechanic turner. |
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"TERRIBLE ACCIDENT TO
AN OLD INTERNATIONAL.
"A shocking accident occurred on Saturday to
Joseph Beverley, an old Blackburn Rovers player and an international
player for England in 1884. He is a mechanic by trade, and while repairing
an engine at the mill of Mr. G. Whiteley, M.P., something fell upon his
head, fracturing the base of the skull. He was removed in a hopeless
condition."
- Pall Mall Gazette, Monday, 17 May 1897. |
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Death |
Friday, 21 May 1897 at
the Blackburn & East Lancashire Infirmary,
Infirmary Road,
Hollin Bank in Blackburn, Lancashire. |
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aged
40 years 190 days |
registered in Blackburn April-June 1897 |
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Obituary |
"AN OLD INTERNATIONAL PLAYER KILLED.
"The death took place late
last night of Joseph Beverley, aged 32, one of the Blackburn Rovers team
in the palmiest days of the club, and a triple international in 1884.
Beverley, who was a mechanic, met with an accident while repairing a mill
engine last Saturday, his skull being fractured in three places, and he
died in the infirmary." - Manchester Evening News,
Saturday, 22 May 1897. |
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According to the
1901 census and four years dead, Joseph's family, Mary Ann and their
children are living at 10 Beverley Street in Blackburn. |
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Mary Beverley died in 1925 |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &
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Playing Career |
Club(s) |
"Joe commenced his football career in 1877 as
one of the promoters of the Black Star F.C. He did not play, but was one
of a deputation appointed to arrange for an amalgamation with the
James-street club. This took place in February 1878, and the combination
was named the Blackburn Olympic. After the preliminaries had been arranged
the team for the following Saturday was selected, and not being able to
make up the full compliment, Joe volunteered his services in the event of
the requisite number of men not turning up."
- Blackburn Standard, Saturday, 23 January 1886.
The match was against his old school, St. John's, and Beverley started in
goal, keeping a clean sheet in the first half. In the second half, he was
Olympic's centre-forward and scored the game's only goal. Beverley was
Olympic's centre-forward for the remainder of the season. For the 1879-80
season, he was selected as club captain, and the following season, became
a full-back. Beverley joined rivals
Blackburn Rovers FC in October 1882. In October 1883, there
was an opportunity for Beverley to start playing for Preston North End FC,
but he changed his mind at the last moment. He rejoined Olympic for the 1884-85 season, only to re-join Rovers in late 1887, up until
December 1888; |
League History
8 appearances |
Blackburn Rovers FC 1888,
eight appearances
debut: 15 September 1888 Blackburn Rovers FC 5 Accrington
FC 5.
last: 8 December 1888 Blackburn Rovers FC 4 Bolton Wanderers FC
4. |
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Club honours |
Blackburn Cup winners 1878-79,
1879-80 (captain); Lancashire Cup semi-finalists 1881-82
(captain), winners 1882-83, 1883-84, runners-up 1884-85;
East Lancashire Charity Cup winners 1881-82 (captain),
1882-83;
FA Cup winners
1883-84;
Football League fourth place
1888-89 (eight appearances); |
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Individual honours |
Lancashire FA (1879 - first match as
centre-forward, second as a full-back)
North vs. South;
Improbables (1881-82) |
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Height/Weight |
5' 8", 11st
2lbs [1880], 5' 8", 11st 12lbs
[1886] |
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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
two who became the 109th (110) players to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Left-back |
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First match |
No. 20, 23
February 1884, Ireland 1 England 8, a British Championship match at Ulster
Cricket Ground, Ballynafeigh Park, Belfast, aged 27 years 103 days. |
Last match
23 days |
No. 22, 17
March 1884, Wales 0 England 4, a British Championship match at
The Racecourse,
Mold Road, Wrexham, aged 27 years 126 days; |
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Major tournaments |
British
Championship 1883-84; |
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Individual honours |
The Improbables (one appearance, March
1882)
The North (one appearance, January 1884) |
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Beyond England |
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"Joe went as a clerk to a yarn agent in Blackburn. Quill driving, however,
did not suit him, and he was apprenticed to iron turning."
- Saturday, 23 January 1886, Blackburn Standard
Lost his life during an accident at
the Albion Mill in Blackburn, where he worked
where apparently a cylinder fell on his head. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming
(1990). Hatton Press, p.34. |
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The Numbers |
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parties |
Appearances |
comp. apps |
minutes |
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captain |
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3 |
3 |
270 |
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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3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
12 |
2 |
+10 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
0.667 |
66.7 |
+1 |
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All 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 1883-84 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
12 |
2 |
+10 |
1 |
1 |
4.00 |
0.667 |
66.7 |
+1 |
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BC All |
3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
12 |
2 |
+10 |
1 |
1 |
4.00 |
0.667 |
66.7 |
+1 |
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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 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
12 |
2 |
+10 |
1 |
1 |
4.00 |
0.667 |
66.7 |
+1 |
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3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
12 |
2 |
+10 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
0.667 |
66.7 |
+1 |
Match History
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