AG Bower	Corinthians FC & Casuals FC & Old Carthusians FC 5 appearances, 0 goals P 5 W 2 D 2 L 1 F 12: A 8 60% successful 1923-27 captain: three minutes played: 450
Timeline
	Second Lieutenant Alfred George Bower
Birth	10 November 1895 at 7 Addison Road, Bromley, Kent [registered in Bromley, December 1895].
	According to the 1901 census, Alfred G. is the second youngest (his younger sister is a month old!) of five children to George Clifford and Emily Maud (née Earnshaw), living at Newquay in Durham Avenue in Beckenham, Kent. Along with two nurses and two servants. His father is a stockbroker.
	According to the 1911 census, Alfred George heads the census list as a patient in The Sanatorium, in Paperharow Road in Godalming. Part of the Charterhouse School. According to the British Army Honourable Artillery Company register, in 1914, he was living at Newquay, Bromley in 1914, and was a stock brokers' clerk.
	According to the 1921 census, Alfred George is a stockbroker (for Finlinson Bros) and is the youngest of two sons still living with their parents at 2 Durham Avenue in Bromley. They have one servant.
Marriage	to Marjorie Irma Single, on 11 January 1927, at St. Matthew's Church, Bayswater [registered in Paddington, March 1927]. He was a stock broker. living at 3 Moscow Court in Bayswater at the time. Their engagement was announced on Christmas Day, 1925. They had two children, Pamela I. (b.1931) and Brenda M. (b.1937)
	According to the 1939 register, Alfred George, a stock jobber, is married to Marjorie and living at Foxwood in Orpington.
Death	30 June 1970 in Gorey, St. Martin, Jersey, aged 74 years 262 days [no registration found in England/Wales].
Funeral	Jersey Crematorium, St. Helier. Ashes scattered beside a rose bush.
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &
Playing Career
Club(s)	'Baishe' attended Chartehouse School but failed to earn his colours. He did, however, play with Old Carthusians FC after WW1, in which he served in the HAC and the City of London Regiment. He made 180 appearances for the famous Corinthians club from 1920 until 6 December 1930. As well as appearing for Casuals FC. Also made nine league appearances for Chelsea FC (three in March 1924, six between August and October 1925, and one last non-competitive appearance in August 1927).
Club honours	None
Individual honours	FA Charity Shield runners-up with Amateurs 1923, 1924;
Distinctions	Entered the Amatuer Golf Championship from 1919 to 1926. Also a keen cricketer and a mamener of the Nondescript CC
Height/Weight	6' 1" [1913]
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].
England Career
Player number	One of four who became the 460th players (460) to appear for England.
Position(s)	Full-back
First match	No. 137, 20 October 1923, Ireland 2 England 1, a British Championship match at Windsor Park, Donegall Avenue, Belfast, aged 27 years 344 days.
Last match	No. 152, 12 February 1927, Wales 3 England 3, a British Championship match at The Racecourse, Mold Road, Wrexham, aged 32 years 94 days.
Major tournaments	British Championship 1923-24, 1924-25, 1927-28;
Team honours	None
Individual honours	England Amateur (thirteen appearances)
Distinctions	The last amateur to captain England. Tenth Kentish player to represent England. most appearanced Englishman at The Casuals. Died fourteen days after Harold Gough.
Beyond England
Served on the FA Council for Public Schools from 1928-1933. After army service, he worked on the Stock Exchange, as did his father, from 1919, he was a partner in the firm Bower & Stocking, until 1954 and then as a welfare officer for a firm in Croydon until 1960. - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.39.

AG Bower - Match History
F.A. International Select Committee - 5 full capsx
Club: Corinthians F.C., Casuals F.C. & Old Carthusians F.C.  - 5 full appearances
Age 27
-	135	21 May 1923 - Sweden 2 England 4, Stockholms Olympiastadion, Stockholm	tour	AW	withdrawn squad member
-	136	24 May 1923 - Sweden 1 England 3, Stockholms Olympiastadion, Stockholm		AW
1	137	20 October 1923 - Ireland 2 England 1, Windsor Park, Belfast	BC	AL	Start	rb
2	138	1 November 1923 - Belgium 2 England 2, Bosuil Stadion, Antwerpen	Fr	AD	Start	lb
Age 29
3	143	8 December 1924 - England 4 Belgium 0, The Hawthorns, West Bromwich	Fr	HW	captain	lb
4	144	28 February 1925 - Wales 1 England 2, Vetch Field, Swansea	BC	AW	captain	lb
-	146	21 May 1925 - France 2 England 3, Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Paris	Fr	AW	withdrawn captain
Age 32
5	152	12 February 1927 - Wales 3 England 3, The Racecourse, Wrexham	BC	AD	captain	rb

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