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Rex
Corbett |
Old Malvernians AFC &
Corinthians FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 F 2:
A 1
100% successful
1903
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Reginald Corbett |
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Birth |
Friday,
13 June
1879 in Thame, Oxfordshire |
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registered in Thame July-September 1879 |
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Baptised |
Monday, 25 August
1879 in Thame, by his own
father |
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According to the 1881 census,
one year-old Reginald is the youngest of eight children, alongside
Reginald, to Vicar Elijah Bagott and Mary Anne (née Davies). They live at The Vicarage
at Thame with one servant. |
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According to the 1891 census,
Reginald is now the seventh of nine children, still with their parents and
still living at The Vicarage with one servant. Father is a clerk in the
holy orders.
(His father died on 30 December 1892 in Thame) |
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According to the 1901 census,
Reginald is a schoolmaster at Durnford School in Langton Matravers. |
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Marriage |
to Kathleen
Wolferstan Thomas, in Wareham, Dorset in the summer of 1906. |
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registered in Wareham July-September 1906 |
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Children |
Rex and Kathy
Corbett had two children together. Michael Wolferstan
(b.26 June 1908) and Simon Philip Wolferstan (b.9 June
1914) |
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The Dorset Electoral
Registers place Reginald at the Malt House from at least 1907 until at
least 1931.
According to the 1911 census,
Reginald is now headmaster at The Old Malthouse School (having founded the
school in 1906) in Langton Matravers (also in 1911-15 Kelly's Directory
of Dorset), and is now married to Kathleen. They
have one son, Michael. |
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(His mother died in Poole on 28 February
1917)
According to the 1921 census,
Reginald, still a schoolmaster and still married, still lives at The Old
Mathouse. They have a new son, Simon. |
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According to the 1939 register, Reginald and Kathleen
are still married. They are at The Richmond Hotel, on the Victoria Road in
Swanage. Reginald is a retired schoolmaster.
(His wife died on 19
September 1949 in Bridport) |
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Death |
Saturday, 2 September
1967 at Hays Residential Home, Sedgehill, in Shaftesbury, Dorset. |
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aged
88 years 81 days |
registered in Mere July-September 1967 |
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Probate |
"CORBETT
Reginald
of Hays Residential Home for the Elderly Sedgehill
Shaftesbury
died
2 September 1967 Probate
London
4 October to Ronald Wilton Hayes stockbroker and Charles Kenneth Ouin solicitor.
Effects £18473"
[2024 equivalent: £361,800]. |
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His brother, Bertie Corbett,
will die on 30 November 1967. |
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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 Malvern College
and earned a place in its team in 1898. He left to play for the Old
Malvernians club. |
.jpg) Corinthians |
1902-05 |
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Club honours |
FA Amateur Cup winners
1901-02; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
None |
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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 three who became the
285th
players (287)
to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Outside-left |
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Only match |
No. 85, 2 March 1903,
England 2 Wales 1, a British
Championship match at Fratton Park, Frogmore Road, Southsea, Portsmouth,
aged 23 years
262 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1902-03; |
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Team honours |
British Championship shared 1902-03; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
The younger brother of
Bertie Corbett.
Died one day after Harry Storer. |
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Beyond England |
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A schoolmaster by profession, like
his brother. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.74. |
