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Walter Bull |
Notts County
FC, Tottenham Hotspur FC
reserve
1900-06 |
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Timeline |
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Walter Bull |
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Birth |
Saturday, 19 December 1874 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.
The 1939 register states he was born on
the twentieth |
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registered in Nottingham January-March 1874. |
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According to the 1881 census,
six year old Walter is the youngest of five children to James Bull and
Julia Ann (née Brookhouse), at 4 Peas Hill Road in St. Mary's area of
Nottingham. His father is a tinman maker. |
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His father died in early
1889.
According to the 1891 census, Walter, now a fitter, now with
a younger brother, is one of four sons living with their widowed mother at
17 Rushworth Terrace in St. Mary's. |
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First marriage |
to Elizabeth Greenfield, on 31 July 1897 in Emmanuel Church, Nottingham |
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registered in Nottingham July-September 1897. |
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Children |
Walter and Lizzie Bull have five children together. Arthur Walter
(b.1898), Leonard
James (b.2 March 1900), Dora Grace (b.24 October
1901), Walter Edward (b.11 December 1903) and Bernard
Joseph (b.23 January 1907). |
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According to the 1901 Welsh
census, Walter, a professional footballer, is part of the Notts County FC
party staying at The Alexandra Hotel in 138 Queen Street in Cardiff.
At the time of Walter Edward's baptism (30 March 1910), Walter, a
professional footballer, is living at 44 Bruce Castle Road in Tottenham. |
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His wife died in
mid-1910.
According to the 1911 census, Walter, now a widow, but
still a professional footballer, lives with his five children and his
mother at 91 Coppice Road in Nottingham. |
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Second marriage |
to Eliza Ann Notman, on 19 December 1914 in St Ann's Church, St.
Ann's, Nottingham, living at 105 Robin Hood Close in Nottingham. |
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registered in Nottingham October-December 1914. |
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His mother died in early
1917.
According to the 1921 census, Walter, a packer for John
Thorpe & Sons blouse manufacturers, is now married to Eliza Ann, and with
three of his children, Walter, Bernard and Dora-Grace, they live at 112
Hunger Hill Road in Nottingham. |
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According to the 1939
register, Walter, a heavy-working warehouseman, still married, and living
at 3 Brecon Close, Nottingham, with his daughter. His son, Leonard, and
his wife, Alice, live at number four. |
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Death |
Monday, 28 July 1952 in Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham |
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aged 77 years 222 days |
registered in Nottingham July-September 1952. |
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Funeral |
Thursday, 31 July 1952, cremated in Southern Cemetery and
Crematorium, West Bridgford in Nottingham |
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Source |
Ancestry.com |
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Playing Career |
Club(s) |
Started with
Nottingham local sides Nuncargate FC and Newstead Byron FC before St. Andrew's FC and joined Notts County in 1894.
Joined Tottenham Hotspur FC in May 1904. A transfer fee that cost £300. Heanor United FC
on 23 June 1910.
Left for Argentina in April 1911 before returning to player-manage Northampton Town FC
from July 1912 to 1913. |
League honours
294 appearances 53 goals |
Notts County FC 1894-1904 282
appearances, 53 goals
debut (division two): 3 November 1894 Woolwich
Arsenal FC 2 Notts County FC 1.
Tottenham Hotspur FC
1909 twelve appearances
debut (second division): 6 March 1909 Stockport
County FC 1 Tottenham Hotspur FC 3.
last (division two): 28 April 1909
Derby County FC 1 Tottenham Hotspur FC 1. |
Club honours |
Football League Division Two
runners-up 1894-95 (10ᵃ 6ᵍ), 1908-09 (12ᵃ), winners 1896-97
(30ᵃ 17ᵍ);
Division One third place 1900-01 (32ᵃ 2ᵍ); |
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Individual honours |
not known |
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Distinctions |
not known |
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Height/Weight |
not known |
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Management
Career |
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Club(s) |
Left for
Argentina in April 1911 to coach before returning to player-manage Northampton Town FC
from 1 July 1912 to 1913, becoming successor to the great Herbert Chapman. |
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England Career |
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Position(s) |
Half-back |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
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Becoming a master at
Dragon School, Oxford, soon after completing his under graduate days, he
refused invitations to go elsewhere and died joint headmaster of the
preparatory school. |
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