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Bertie
Corbett |
Corinthians
FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 F 6:
A 0
100% successful
1901
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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captain Bertie Oswald Corbett |
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Birth |
15 May 1875 in
Thame, Oxfordshire [registered in
Thame, June 1875].
According
to the 1921 census, he was born in Oswestry, Shropshire. |
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According to the 1881 census,
five year-old Bertie is the sixth of eight children, alongside Reginald,
to Vicar Elijah Bagott and Welsh wife Mary Anne (née Davies). They live at The Vicarage
on Crendaro Road at Thame, with one servant. |
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According to the 1891 census,
Bertie is now the sixth of nine children, still with their parents and
still living at The Vicarage with one servant. Father is a clerk in the
holy orders. |
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According to the 1901 census,
Bertie is an assistant schoolmaster at The Junior House at Brighton
college, on Eastern Road in Brighton. |
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According to the 1911 census,
Bertie Oswald is headmaster at Rycote College in Kidlerton Road in Derby.
He is assisted by a couple of his sisters, Winifred and Theodora. |
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Marriage |
to Ella Stagg
[registered in Braintree, September 1912]. |
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According to the 1921 census,
Bertie Oswald, a school master, now married to Ella, and have two boarders
and four servants, are all living at Shardlow Hall in Shardlow. |
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According to the 1939 register, Bertie and Ella are
still married and living in Waddon House in Portesham. Bertie is a retired
schoolmaster, now farming. |
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Death |
30 November 1967
at Waddon House,
Portesham,
aged
92 years 199 days
[registered in Weymouth, Dorset, December 1967]. Buried on 4
December in Portesham
Cemetery in Dorset. |
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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 Thame Grammar
School, learning his football, before moving up to Oxford University and
earning his Blue in 1896-97. He joined the Corinthians FC from 1897,
becoming it's secretary in 1902 for three years, and left the club in
1906. |
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Club honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Played first class
cricket with Buckinghamshire, and once for Derbyshire |
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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 six who
became the 262nd players (267) player to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Outside-left |
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First match |
No. 72, 18 March 1901, England
6 Wales 0, a British Championship match at St. James' Park, Gallowgate,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, aged 25 years
307 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1900-01; |
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Team honours |
British Championship winners
1900-01; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Brother of
Rex Corbett,
died three months after him. |
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Beyond England |
Assisted Reading and Slough in
1906-07 while he was also teaching. He was a schoolmaster by profession,
he started Shardlow School in Derbyshire.
And the Editor of 'Annals of the Corinthian Football Club'
(Longmans 1906). He became proprietor of
a Dorset preparatory school. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.74.
Served as captain of the
Grenadier Guards and served as a counciller for Dorset County Council. |
