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Hawley
Edwards |
Shropshire Wanderers
FC & Wanderers FC
1 cap, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D 0 L 1 F 1:
A 2
0% successful
1874
disciplined: none
captaincies: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Profile |
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Full name |
John Hawley Edwards |
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Notes |
Modern yearbooks list him as Edwards, but
Football Encyclopaedia 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 call him
Hawley-Edwards. Possibly double-barrelled his surname after he
married. |
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Born |
early 1850 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire [registered in
Shrewsbury, March 1850]. One unreliable source states 21 March
1850... possible, but without foundation. But certainly after 14 January. |
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Census Notes |
According to the 1851 census,
John Hawley Edwards is the one year old son of John Edward and Emma
Matilda (née Faulkner). He is the youngest of three children living
at Belvidere in Shrewsbury. His father is an attorney and solictor. |
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Cannot be found on the 1861 census. |
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According to the 1871 census,
John H. is a clerk in the solictors, living alone in a room in 5 Albert
Street in Pancras, London. |
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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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According to the 1891 census,
John Hawley-Edwards, married to Helen Beatrice, with one son Spencer
Hawtrey. They live in Whitchurch in Broughall. With two servants. |
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Married |
to Helen
Beatrice Spencer
[registered in Shifnal, Shropshire, June 1881] |
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Died |
14 January 1893, aged
42 years x days
[registered in March 1893] in Conway,
Caernarvonshire,
Wales. |
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Height/Weight |
Not known |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & FindMyPast.com |
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Club Career |
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Club(s) |
Shropshire
Wanderers FC, also played for Wanderers FC from 4 March 1874 and
Shrewsbury FC around 1876.
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Club honours |
FA Cup winner
1875-76; |
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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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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 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, Glasgow, close to his 24th birthday. |
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Major tournaments |
None |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
Wales (one appearance) |
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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. |
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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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