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A.G. Goodwyn |
Royal
Engineers FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 1 D 0 L 0 F
4:
A 2
100% successful
1873
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Lieutenant
Alfred George Goodwyn |
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Birth |
Wednesday,
13 March 1850, a British Subject born in Roohir, Bengal, India |
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"BIRTH.―At Roorkee,
on the 13th March, the wife of Lieut H A G Goodwyn, Engineers, of a son."
- The Bombay Gazette and Indian Daily News, Friday, 5 April 1850. |
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no registration found |
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Alfred George's father was Major General Alfred George Goodwyn, born 17 August 1819. Mother was Marie Anne
(née Ross). They were married on 11 April 1844. Their children...Elizabeth (7
June 1846), Emily (18 October 1848), Alfred George, Marian (13 April
1851), Arthur Ross (28 September 1852), Maria Catherine (9 April 1854),
Henry Edward (11 October 1855) and Teresa Constance (9 November 1859). |
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There is no record of Alfred
George, or his father, on the 1851
and 1861 census'. It is likely that born in India, they had remained
in India. |
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According to the 1871
census, Alfred is a Gent Cadet in the Army Service Corps Barracks and the
Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, London.
(His father died 11
April 1873) |
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Death |
Saturday, 14 March 1874 at Roorkee in the Bengal Presidency
Died as a result from injuries
suffered when falling from a horse. |
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aged 24 years
1 day |
no registration found |
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"GOODWYN―14th, at Roorkee, Bengal, Alfred George Goodwyn, aged 24."
- London Evening Standard, Tuesday, 24 March 1874. |
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Principal Registry |
"GOODWYN
Alfred George. 9 December 1874. Administration of the
effects of
Alfred George Goodwyn
late of Roorkee in the
East Indies
a Lieutenant in Her
Majesty's Royal Engineers a Bachelor
who died 14 March 1874 at Roorkee was
granted at the
Principal Registry
to Maria Anne Goodwyn of 27 Park-street
Bath in the County of Somerset Widow the Mother and only Next of Kin.
Effects under £1000."
[2019 equivalent: under £113,930]. |
Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990], Goodwyn's Pedigree
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
After service
in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich he was commissioned into the
Royal Engineers as a lieutenant. |
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Club honours |
FA Cup
runners-up 1871-72; |
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Individual honours |
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
nine who became the
twelfth players
(14) to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Half-back. |
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Only match |
No. 2, 8 March 1873, England 4 Scotland 2,
a friendly match at The Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington, London,
aged 22 years 360 days. |
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Distinctions |
Goodwyn, when he suffered his fatal accident, became the first England
player to die, and until 1881, the youngest to do so. Overall, the fifth
youngest to die. |
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Beyond England |
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Died from a riding
accident while serving in the East Indies, he had been with the Royal
Engineer's less than three years, having joined in August 1871.
-
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.109. |
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