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Reginald
Birkett |
Clapham Rovers FC
1 appearance,
4 goals against
P 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 F 5:
A 4
100% successful
1879
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Reginald Halsey
Birkett |
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Birth |
Wednesday, 28 March 1849, at 2 Broad Street Buildings,
in the City of London, London. |
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registered in the City of
London April-June 1849 |
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"On the 28th ult., at No, 2, Broad-street-buildings, City, the
lady of John Birkett, Esq., of a son;" - London Morning
Post, Monday, 2 April
1849. |
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Baptism |
31 May 1849, at St. Botolph Bishopsgate Parish Church |
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According to the 1851 census,
Reginald Halsey is the second youngest of four children to John and Lucy
Matilda (née Janson). They live with four servants at 6 Wellington Street in Southwark. His father is a Fellow at the Royal College of Surgeons. |
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According to the 1861 census,
Reginald H. is a pupil at John Bentley's boarding school, Silver Street,
in Calne, Wiltshire. |
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According to the 1871 census,
Reginald H. is the eldest of the four children (Perceval, Evelyn and
Louis are the others) now living with their parents in Green Street,
Westminster, along with three servants. Reginald is a commercial clerk. |
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According to the 1881 census,
Reginald H. is a hide brokers clerk, visiting the Crumden's (one of the
daughters will be his wife in one to four months, so he is presumably
engaged to her). They live at 5 Marlborough Place in Brighton. They have
four servants. |
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Marriage |
to Lisette
Crunden, on Wednesday, 15 June 1881 at St. John's Church, Lower Church
Road, Burgess Hill, Sussex |
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registered in Cuckfield
April-June 1881 |
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"BIRKETT―CRUNDEN―At
St. John's, Burgess Hill, Reginald H., Birkett, of Cambridge-villas,
Park-road, Richmond, son of Mr. John Birkett, F.R.C.S., of Green-street,
Grosvenor-square, to Lisette, daughter of Mr. Thomas Crunden, of Burgess
Hill, Sussex, June 15." - Pall Mall Gazette, Thursday, 16 June 1881. |
,%20Reg.jpg) "MARRIAGE
OF MISS CRUNDEN.―
"On Wednesday last the marriage of Mr. Reginald Halsey Birkett (of
London), with Miss Lizette Crunden, took place at the Church of St. John
[left]. The weather was all that
could be wished for. The ceremony took place soon after eleven, and for an
hour before that time could be seen hundreds of the inhabitants, dressed
in holiday costume, on their way to the church; it was, to all intents in
purposes, a general holiday, as the bride is very popular in the
neighbourhood, and by the time of the arrival of the wedding party the
church was literally crammed, there not being even standing room. The
altar, altar rails, reading desk, choir pews, &c., had been most
beautifully decorated with flowers by ladies of the district. The bride
leaning on the arm of her father, looked beautiful, and was most
magnificently attired in a white satin and broche dress, orange blossoms,
and Honiton lace veil. The bridesmaids were eight in number...The
officiating clergymen were the Rev. F. Arnold (curate-in-charge), Rev.
Theodore H. Janson (curate of St. Clement's, Bournemouth,) cousin of the
bridegroom, who performed the marriage ceremony, and Dr. Savage. The
service was fully choral...On emerging from the sacred edifice, the happy
couple were received with a perfect shower of flowers, rice, &c. An
adjournment was then made to the residence of the father of the bride, Oak
Hall, where about 50 sat down to breakfast. The newly-married couple
shortly after left, amid a shower of old slippers, &c;, for Henfield, and
from thence to the Garden of England, viz., the Isle of Wight, to spend
the honeymoon." -
The
Horsham Advertiser, 18 June 1881. |
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Children |
Reginald and Lisette Birkett had two sons together.
Gerald Halsey (b.17 January 1883) and John Guy Giborne
(b.27 December 1884) |
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"BIRTHS. |
―On
December 27, at Richmond, Surrey, the wife of Reginald Halsey Birkett, of
a son;" - Thursday, 1 January 1885, The Sportsman. |
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According to the 1891 census,
Reginald H. is a colonial broker, and is now married to Lisette, with
their two children,
Gerald and John, and two servants, they all live at 18 Park Road
in Richmond, London.
(His mother died toward the end of 1893) |
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Death |
 Thursday
evening, 30 June 1898,
in Grangeside, Wimbledon, Surrey |
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aged
49 years 94 days |
registered in
Kingston July-September 1898 |
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Obituary |
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"DISTRESSING
DEATH
OF MR.
BIRKETT.―
"We record in our obituary column, with the deepest regret, the death of a
gentleman well known in Burgess Hill as a periodical visitor, and more
especially as a son-in-law of Mrs. Crunden, of Oak Hall, to whom, and to
whose family, we are sure, the widest sympathy will be extended. We refer
to Mr. Reginald Halsey Birkett, of Grangeside, Wimbledon, formerly noted
in the football world, who died on Thursday under exceptionally
distressing circumstances. Deceased had been suffering from diphtheria, and
had rambled in his mind. Towards the close of Wednesday he got more
restless, and talked a good deal. Later he got out of bed, and pulled the
window curtains to one side. His nurse told him to go back to bed, and
having exclaimed 'Oh, this is the wrong entrance,' he did so. Subsequently
he again got out, but the nurse induced him to take his dressing-gown off,
and got him towards the bed. Just then he wrenched himself from her, put
his hands together as if to dive, and jumped through the curtains and the
thick plate-glass of the window, falling a distance of 18ft. or 20 ft. onto
the area outside. Mr. Birkett was picked up unconscious, in a pool of
blood, and expired in a few hours from a fractured skull. Deceased, who
was of a most genial disposition, leaves a widow and two sons."
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The
Mid-Sussex Times, Tuesday, 5 July 1898. |
Funeral: Thursday, 7
July 1898, at St. John's Church, Burgess Hill
"The funeral is to take place on Thursday at St. John's Church, Burgess
Hill, wherein deceased's marriage came off about seventeen years ago."
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Tuesday, 5 July 1898, The
Mid-Sussex Times |
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According to the 1901 census,
both John Guy Giborne and Gerald Halsey were pupils in Hailbury College in
Ware. Their mother, Lisette, was living in Glendale Road in Burgess Hill,
Cuckfield. She is a widow with one servant. |
"BIRKETT
Reginald Halsey of "Grangeside" Wimbledon Surrey
died 30 June
1898 Administration
London 2 August to
Lisette Birkett widow.
Effects £7488 7s. 8d."
[2019 equivalent: £980,584] |
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Lisette Birkett died 6 January 1941 |
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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) |
Attended
Lancing College, playing football 1866-67, before joining Lancing Old
Boys AFC, then Clapham Rovers FC, where he became the captain for many seasons; |
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Club honours |
FA Cup
runners-up 1878-79; winners 1879-80; |
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Individual honours |
Surrey FA |
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Height/Weight |
not known |
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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
eight who became the
62nd players
(62) to appear for England.
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Position(s) |
Goalkeeper;
Tenth goalkeeper to appear. |
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Only match |
No. 9, 5 April
1879, England 5 Scotland 4, a friendly match at
The
Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington, London, aged
30 years 8 days; |
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Individual honours |
The South
(postponed, January 1879) |
Distinctions |
Reginald
Birkett was a member of the original RFU Committee when he was with
Clapham Rovers, and played for England (four times)
at Rugby Union also. His brother Louis played rugby for England
with Reginald - against Scotland and Ireland. Reginald's son, John Birkett,
played as England centre from 1902-07. He was an England appearance record
holder, and served in World War One as a captain in the R.F.A., where he
was mentioned in dispatches and was also decorated with the Order of the
Crown, 5th Class. |
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Beyond England |
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Birkett was a Hide
& Skin Brokers Clerk in the City. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming
(1990). Hatton Press, p.34/FindMyPast.com |
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The Numbers |
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parties |
Appearances |
minutes |
Goals
Against |
GA ave.min |
clean sheets |
captain |
| 1 |
1 |
90 |
4 |
23 min |
none |
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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1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
4 |
+1 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
4 |
100 |
+1 |
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His only match was a friendly match played at a home venue |
Match History
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apps |
match |
match details |
comp |
res. |
rundown |
pos |
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pp |
1 March 1879 - England vs. Scotland,
The Surrey Cricket Ground, Kennington |
Fr |
postponed
- frost |
gk |
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