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Edgar
Field |
Clapham Rovers FC
2
appearances, 0 goals
1 own goal
P 2 W 0 D 0 L 2 F
1:
A
9
0% successful
1876-81
captain: none
minutes played: 180 |
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Timeline |
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Edgar Field |
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Birth |
Saturday, 29 July 1854 in
The Paddock House, London Road, Wallingford, Berkshire |
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registered in Wallingford
July-September 1854 |
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According to the 1861
census, Edgar is the sixth of seven children to Thomas Edward and Anne
Charlotte (née
Payne)(now deceased). His
father is the Aldermans of Wallingford, as well as draper and brewer and
has remarried (to Mary Lee). They
all live at The Paddock House on London Road, Benson in Wallingford along
with three servants.
(His mother died on 17 January 1859, five days
after giving birth to his younger brother, Bernard Robert) |
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According to the 1871
census, Edgar is a pupil at St Nicholas Cottage in Lancing. In Shoreham,
Sussex. He now also has two half-sisters at home. |
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According to the 1881
census, Edgar is the only one of the children living with his parents at
Paddock House, with two servants. Edgar is an accountant, his father is
still the Alderman, and now just a brewer. |
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Marriage |
to Emily Florence Fuller, on Thursday, 31 October 1889, at Aston Tirrold Church, Wallingford |
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registered in Wallingford
October-December 1889 |
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"October 31, at Aston Tirrold Church, Mr.
Edgar Field to Emily Florence, daughter of the late Mr. T. H. Fuller, of
Shiplake-on-Thames." -
Bicester Herald, Friday,
8 November 1889. |
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Marriage |
Edgar and Emily Field had two children together. Florence Marjorie Fuller
(b.18 June 1891) and Edgar Fuller
(b.23 April 1893) |
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According to the 1891
census, Edgar is married to Emily and is now a wine merchant. They live
with Emily's brother and sister, at St Mary's Street in Wallingford, with
one servant. |
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"DEATHS |
...FIELD.―Feb.
5, at 38, Park Hall Road, East Finchley, Emily Florence, the wife of Edgar
Field." - Berkshire
Chronicle, Saturday, 12 February 1898. |
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According to the 1901
census, Edgar is now a widower and accountant. He is visiting his cousin,
Alfred Edward Howard Field, a mechanical engineer, living at 80 Onslow
Gardens in Hornsey, with his own daughters and three servants. |
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(His father died on 30
January 1909 at Woodspring House, Clevedon)
According to the 1911
census, Edgar, still a chartered accountant, is living with his niece and
her husband, Blanche and Herbert Smith. Herbert is a bank clerk and they
both live in 38 Griffiths Road in Wimbledon, along with their two
daughters and two servants. |
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According to the 1921
census, Edgar, still an accountant (for Snow & Fuller Lane Agents &
Surveyors), is boarding with his employer, Thomas Alfred & Kathleen Evelyn
Fuller in Warwick Avenue in Littleover. |
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Death |
Thursday, 11 January 1934
at 7 Fairfield Road, Normanton in Derby, Derbyshire |
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aged 79 years 166 days |
registered in Derby
January-March 1934 |
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Obituary |
"DEATH OF AN OLD WALLINGFORD FOOTBALLER.
Mr. EDGAR FIELD.
"We regret to record the death
of Mr. Edgar Field, which occurred on Thursday, the 11th instant, at 7,
Fairfield Road, Derby.
"Deceased, aged 79, was a son of the late Mr. T.
E. Field, senior partner in the firm of Messrs. Field. Hawkins and
Ponking, the well-known Wallingford drapers. For some years he managed the
wine and spirit business belonging to the old Shillingford Brewery, whose
premises were situated in the Wallingford Market Place, and he had served
the Burgesses as one of their representatives on the Town Council.
"In
his youth, Edgar Field was in the front rank as a footballer, and old
Wallingfordians will have recollections of the burly figure who invariably
played a wonderful game for the Town team in the 'Eighties. One could
always be certain of Edgar; he was a full-back par excellence―fearless,
thrustful, brainy, and having a remarkably good and accurate kick...
"Other teams coveted Edgar's services and he was included in he Reading
side for some time. In 1881, while captain of the Clapham Rovers team, he
had the honour of representing England against Scotland and captained
the side
[ed. this is an error, as
it was evidently Norman Bailey, his Clapham teammate]
while playing in the half-back position.
"While at Wallingford he
filled the office of President of the Football Club and was also captain
of the cricket team."
"Shortly after his marriage to a sister of the
late Mr. George F. Fuller, of Copstyle, Aston Tirrold (a well-known farmer
and sportsman), he was the recipient of a handsome present from the
Wallingford footballers. He left Wallingford for London, where he was
engaged for some time as an accountant. On his retirement he went to
reside at Derby. A married son and single daughter survive him, he being a
widower."
- Berkshire & Oxon
Advertiser, Friday, 19 January 1934. |
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Funeral |
on Monday, 15 January 1934 in
Littleover.
"FIELD.―Funeral
on Monday at Littleover at 2.30 p.m."
- Friday, 12 January 1934, Derby Daily Telegraph. |
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Probate |
"FIELD
Edgar of 7 Fairfield-road
Derby died 11 January
1934 Probate
London 18 April to
Edgar Fuller Field rubber technologist and Florence Marjorie Fuller Field
spinster.
Effects £648 5s. 10d."
[2019 equivalent: £46,726] |
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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 Lancing College before leaving to play for
Reading FC during the mid-1870's. Turned out for his local Wallingford
Town FC. Joined Clapham Rovers FC before his only international match;
Field was playing with Thame FC from its founding 1 October 1883. Spent his time at Reading FC refereeing
other matches in the local area. |
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Club honours |
FA Cup
runners-up 1878-79, winner
1879-80; |
| Individual honours |
Berkshire and Buckinghamshire FA
(President until 1892) |
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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
nine who became the
34th player (35)
to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Full-back |
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First match |
No.
5, 4 March 1876, Scotland 3 England 0, friendly match at The West of
Scotland Cricket Ground, Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow,
aged 21 years
219 days. |
Last match
5 years 8 days |
No. 13, 12 March 1881, England 1 Scotland 6,
friendly match at The Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington, London, aged 26 years
226 days.
 79
min |
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Individual honours |
Probables (one appearance, 1878);
The South (one appearance, March 1880);
England Trial (one appearance, March 1881) |
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Distinctions |
At least two
sources say Field scored an own goal in his last international. If
he did (some reports credit John Smith with a hat-trick), he was the first
player to do so in an England match.
The last member of the 1876 team
to die. |
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Beyond England |
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Field was a Chartered
Accountant by profession. A wine and spirit salesman for Shillingford
Brewery in his later years. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.97./obituary |
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The Numbers |
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parties |
Appearances |
minutes |
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captain |
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2 |
2 |
180 |
0 |
1 |
none |
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The minutes here given
can only ever be a guideline and cannot therefore be accurate, only an
approximation. |
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P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
9 |
-8 |
1 |
0 |
0.5 |
4.5 |
0 |
-2 |
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Both of his matches were friendly matches |
Venue Record
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Venue |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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Home |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
-5 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
6.00 |
00.0 |
-1 |
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Away |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
-3 |
1 |
0 |
0.00 |
3.00 |
00.0 |
-1 |
Match History
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