George Brann	Swifts FC & Corinthians FC 3 caps, 1 goal P 3 W 2 D 1 L 0 F 8: A 3 83% successful 1886-91 disciplined: none captaincies: none minutes played: 270
Profile
Full name	George Brann
Born	23 April 1865 in Eastbourne, East Sussex [no registration found].
Census Notes	According to the 1871 census, George is boarding with the Bray's at The Green, Ringmer in Lewes. His father is also called George, according to his marriage registration.
	This George Brann cannot be found on the 1881 census.
	According to the 1891 census, George is a visitor to Bridge Cottage on Walton Lane in Shepperton.  There is no householder on this night, but there are two servants.  George is an insurance agent. According to his marriage registration, George was living at 14 Temeperley Road in Streatham, in 1892, and his job listed as a solicitor.
	According to the 1901 census, George is now married to Florence, and they are currently residing her her widowed mother, Mary Ellwood, at 15 Nightingale Lane in Streatham. George is living 'within his own means'.
	According to the 1911 census, George is Secretary to the Golf Club, still married, and are living at 42 Ewell Road in Surbiton. The census reveals that their one and only child died.
Married	to Florence Elizabeth Ellwood, 18 October 1892 at Balham Hill Ascension, Streatham [registered in Wandsworth, December 1892].
Died	14 June 1954 at Ivyholme, 42 Ewell Road, Surbiton Hill, Surrey, aged 89 years x days [registered in Surrey N., June 1954]. Left £21170 14s. 6d. in his will
Height/Weight	not known
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & FindMyPast.com
Club Career
Club(s)	Started his playing career with Ardingley College in West Sussex.  Brann went onto play for Swifts FC, which then merged with other teams from Slough in 1890 to form Slough Town FC.  Guested for the Corinthians FC team from 1885 until 1893 (32 apps, 8 goals)
Club honours	None
Individual honours	None
Distinctions	Also played first-class cricket with Sussex CCC 1883-1905;
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].
England Career
Player number	Became the 133rd player to appear for England.
Position(s)	Outside-left/right and inside-forward;
First match	No. 27, 27 March 1886, Scotland 1 England 1, a British Championship match at Hampden Park, Crosshill, Glasgow, aged 20 years 338 days.
Last match	No. 41, 7 March 1891, England 4 Wales 1, a British Championship match at Newcastle Road, Sunderland, aged 25 years 318 days;
Major tournaments	British Championship 1885-86, 1890-91;
Team honours	British Championship winners 1885-86 (shared), 1890-91;
Individual honours	None
Distinctions	None
Beyond England
Following his retirement from cricket in particular, Brann became a good golfer and was secretary to the Home Park Golf Club in Surbiton for twenty years. He also taught at Ardingly College. - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.44.

George Brann - Match History
Club: Swifts F.C. & Corinthians F.C. - 3 full caps Coach: FA Committee - 3 full capsx
Age 20
1	27	27 March 1886 - Scotland 1 England 1, Hampden Park, Crosshill, Glasgow	BC	AD	Start	ol
2	28	29 March 1886 - Wales 1 England 3, The Racecourse, Mold Road, Wrexham	BC	AW	Start	or
Age 25
3	41	7 March 1891 - England 4 Wales 1, Newcastle Road, Sunderland	BC	HW	Start	or

Notes

BRANN, MR. GEORGE, who died at his home at Surbiton, Surrey, on June 14, aged 89, was a famous Sussex batsman at the turn of the century. A product of Ardingly College, where he spent ten years, he first appeared for Sussex in 1883 and played his last match for the county in 1905, but his career really began in 1885 and ended in 1904. Originally a very free batsman and powerful hitter, he forsook his dashing methods during his last few years of county cricket, but although becoming a far more watchful type of batsman he continued to make many runs. Born on April 23, 1865, he scored altogether 11,150 runs, average 25, and he scored twenty-five centuries for Sussex. He owed much to the coaching of Alfred Shaw and William Mycroft. Standing nearly six feet, Brann was a capital fieldsman and once at Ardingly threw a ball over 115 yards.

His biggest score was 219 against Hampshire at Brighton. In 1899 he and C. B. Fry opened the two Sussex innings against Middlesex at Lord's with partnerships of 135 and 148. In 1892 he enjoyed what was then the rare distinction of scoring two centuries in a match--105 and 101 against Kent at Brighton. Only Dr. W. G. Grace (three times) and W. Lambert, of Sussex, had to that point in cricket history achieved the feat. Brann went to Australia in 1887-88 as a member of Shaw and Shrewsbury's Team, visited South Africa under W. W. Read in 1891-92 and America in 1899 when K. S. Ranjitsinhji was captain.

Brann was also a fine Association football forward. Fast and heavy, he did great work for that celebrated Slough club, the Swifts, and for the Corinthians and played for England against Scotland and Wales in 1886 and against Wales in 1891. After retiring from cricket he achieved some fame at golf. - Wisden Obituary

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