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Hawley
Edwards |
Shropshire Wanderers
FC & Wanderers FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D 0 L 1 F 1:
A 2
0% successful
1874
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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John Hawley Edwards |
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Modern yearbooks list him as Edwards, but
Football Encyclopedia 1934, a match report in
The Sporting
Life, and Charles Alcock himself, call him J Hawley-Edwards. Regardless, his birth certificate, marriage certificate and death
certificate all list him as Edwards. Although, the 1891 census did call him
Hawley-Edwards. |
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Birth |
Thursday, 21 March
1850 in Pride Hill, St. Alkmund, Shrewsbury, Shropshire |
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registered in Shrewsbury
January-March 1850 |
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Baptism |
8 May 1850 in St. Alkmund Church, Shrewsbury |
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According to the 1851 census, John Hawley
Edwards is the one year old son of John Hawley and Emma Matilda (née
Faulkner). He is the youngest of three children living at Belvidere in
Shrewsbury. His father is an attorney and solicitor. |
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According to the 1861 census, the Edwards family are living at Loseley
House in Shrewsbury. He has four younger siblings, but neither John or his
mother are on this census return. They have three servants and a
governess. |
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According to the 1871 census,
John H. is a clerk in the solicitors, living alone in a room in 5 Albert
Street in Pancras, London.
London Electoral Registers state John
Hawley Edwards is living at 6 Lloyd Square in Clerkenwell in 1876-77.
(His father died early 1877) |
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According to the 1881 census,
J.H. Edwards, now a solicitor, is visiting the Spencer's in The Grove in
Shifnal. Thomas and Emily Spencer's daughter would soon marry J.H. |
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Marriage |
to Helen
Beatrice Spencer, on 21 April 1881, at The Parish Church in Shifnal |
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registered in Shifnal
Shropshire April-June 1881 |
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Children |
Hawley and Helen
Edwards had one son together. Spencer Faulkner Hawley (b.1882) |
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According to the 1891 census,
John Hawley-Edwards, married to Helen Beatrice, with one son Spencer
Hawley. They live in Whitchurch in Broughall, with two servants. |
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Death |
Friday, 13 January 1893, in
Old Colwyn, Conway,
Caernarvonshire,
Wales. He had been suffering with throat cancer. |
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aged
42 years 298 days |
registered in Conway
January-March 1893 |
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"EDWARDS―Jan
13. aged 42, at Old Colwyn, J. Hawley Edwards, of Shrewsbury" -
The Cheshire
Observer/Wellington Journal & Shrewsbury News, Saturday 21 January 1893. |
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Obituary |
"DEATH OF THE MAGISTRATES CLERK―
"The Mayor (Mr. G. Evans), taking his seat at the Borough [!!!] Court on
Saturday morning, referred to the fact that a telegram had been received
that morning informing the Bench of the death of their clerk, Mr. J.
Hawley Edwards. The Bench, the Mayor said, deeply felt the loss they had
sustained, and desired the deputy clerk to convey to the widow, and
family, and expression of their sincere sympathy.―Mr. W. Phillips, another
member of the Bench; Mr. F. W. Williams, on behalf of the legal
profession; and Mr. H. Blackwell (chief constable), on behalf of the
police force, also expressed their regret."
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The Birmingham Daily Post,
Monday, 16 January 1893
"The
death is announced of Mr. Hawley Edwards, the Clerk to the Magistrates for
the Borough of Shrewsbury, and the agent for the Conservative member. Mr.
Edwards, who has died quite young, from cancer in the throat, was a
well-known oarsman and athlete."
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The Cheltenham Chronicle,
Saturday 21 January 1893
"A
large number of football players in the '70's will learn with regret of
the death of Hawley Edwards, who had a unique experience of having played
against Scotland for both England and Wales―in 1874 with the former, and
in 1876 with the latter. He was a prominent member of the Shropshire
Wanderers, and later on captain of Shrewsbury Town when the latter won the
Birmingham Cup. Mr. Edwards was Town Clerk of Shrewsbury at the time of his
death, and Bowdler, who now plays with Blackburn Rovers, was articled to
him. His successor, Mr. Hughes, is also an old member of the Shrewsbury
Town Club."
- The Athletic News and Cyclists'
Journal./Sheffield Evening Telegraph, Monday, 23 January 1893 |
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Funeral |
Tuesday, 17 January 1893 in the Longden Road Cemetery,
Shrewsbury.
"EDWARDS―Funeral at Shrewsbury
To-day (Tuesday), at 2 o'clock inst.," -
The London Morning Post/The London Evening Standard, Tuesday 17 January 1893 |
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Allen Edwards died early 1911
in Madeley |
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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) |
"It is chiefly in his connection with the
old Shropshire
Wanderers that he will be most recognised, as it was chiefly organised by
him, and of his team he was captain from 1869 to 1877."
- The Wellington Journal, Saturday, 21 January 1893 also played for Wanderers FC from 4 March 1874 and
captained the
Shrewsbury FC from 1875 to 1879. |
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Club honours |
FA Cup winners
1875-76;
Birmingham Cup winners 1877-78; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Played first
class cricket for Shropshire, as well as being the club's secretary. |
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Height/Weight |
not known |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &
Rob Cavallini's The Wanderers FC: Five Times F.A. Cup
Winners. [2005]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of
seven who became the
21st players
(26) to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Forward |
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Only match |
No. 3, 7 March 1874,
Scotland 2 England 1, a friendly match at The West of
Scotland Cricket Ground, Hamilton
Crescent, Partick, Glasgow, 23 years 351 days. |
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Individual honours |
Wales (one appearance, 1876) |
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Distinctions |
Also played the
inaugural match for Wales against Scotland in 25 March 1876 at
The West of Scotland Cricket Ground, Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow.
The
ninth England player to die, and the second to die from the 1874 team. |
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Beyond England |
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Became the first Treasurer of the FA
of Wales. A solicitor by profession, having been admitted in September
1871, he was Clerk to the Shrewsbury magistrates for 19 years until his
death. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.151. |
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