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Percy
Humphreys |
Notts County FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0
D 0 L 1 F 1:
A 2
0% successful
1903
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Percy Humphreys |
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Birth |
Friday,
3 December 1880 at 5 Saxon Street in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. |
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registered in Cambridge January-March 1881 |
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According to the 1881
census, four month old Percy is the youngest of two children to Thomas and
Sarah (née Coe). His father is a tailor. They live at 5 Saxon Street in Cambridge. |
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According to the 1891
census, Percy and his older sister are the only children and live with
their parents at 29 John Street in Cambridge. His father remains a tailor. |
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According to the 1901
census, Percy is a professional footballer living with his widowed aunty
in London. He lives with Martha Mumford and her two daughters (his
cousins), and four boarders, all at 18 Cupar Road in Battersea. |
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Marriage |
to Florence Agnes
Mumford, on Saturday, 15 June 1901 at All Saint's Church in
Battersea, London. Percy is a tailor and they both stated as
living at 18 Cupar Road |
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registered in Wandsworth April-June 1901 |
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Children |
Percy and Florence have two children together, Arthur Percival
(b.6 July 1902) and Peggy
(b.August 1918). |
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Cannot be found on the 1911
census.
According to his army records (Football
Battalion (27th Battn Middlesex Reg.)), in 1915,
Humphreys is living at 38 Upton Lane in Forest Gate, at the time of his
father's death. A year later, at his
discharge, he is living at 43 Kitchener Road, still in Forest Gate. |
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According to the 1921 census, Percy is now a
football coach for Tottenham Hotspur FC, still married and they have
another daughter, Peggy. They live at 51 Gladstone Avenue in East Ham.
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According to the 1939 register, Percy remains
married, but is here living at 13 Thorngrove Road in West Ham, the home of
Ada Mumford, his mother-in-law. His is a night-supervisor for a gas company.
His wife, Florence, died on 14 March 1951. They were living at
30 First Avenue in Dagenham. |
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Death |
Monday, 13 April 1959 at Southern Grove Lodge, Southern Grove in
Bow, London |
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aged
78 years 131 days |
registered in Stepney April-June 1959 |
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Funeral |
Thursday, 16
April 1959 in Chadwell Heath Cemetery, Whalebone Lane North, Marks Gate,
Greater London |
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Probate |
"HUMPHREYS
Percy
of Southern Grove Lodge Southern Grove Mile End
London E. I
died
13 April 1959 Probate London
11 May to Yvonne Maria Brown (wife of Eric George Brown).
Effects £956 18s. 9d"
[2024 equivalent: £18,903]. |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings'
An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Playing
Career |
Club(s) |
Began his junior
football career with Cambridge St. Mary's FC reserves in 1897, making the
first XI the following January. As an amateur, he represented
Cambridgeshire FA twice, against Huntingdonshire FA and Hertfordshire FA,
both in 1900. He joined Southern League's Queen's Park Rangers FC as a
professional in the 1900 close season. Joined Notts County FC a year
later. Blackburn Rovers FC
signed Humphreys in the 1907 close season, but he refused to go, stating
that he 'did not want to go further north than Nottingham.' On 23 May
1907, the FA then refused Humphreys permission to leave for Southampton
FC. However, he opted to sign on with Notts County before being
transferred to Leicester Fosse FC in August. He returned south
when Chelsea FC signed him on 26 February 1908 for the maximum transfer
fee, £350. Tottenham Hotspur FC signed him on 9
December 1909. After being dropped to the
reserves, Leicester Fosse FC re-signed Humphreys on 6
October 1911. Joined Hartlepools United FC as a
player-manager on 26 June 1912, he made a final
28 North-Eastern League appearances and scored eleven goals before
he settled into coaching abroad in 1913. However, on 18 November 1914,
Humphreys signed for Norwich City FC. |
League honours
319 appearances, 124 goals |
Notts County FC 1901-07 189 appearances, 66 goals
debut: 14 September 1901 Notts County FC 6
The Wednesday FC 1.
Leicester Fosse FC 1907-08 26 appearances,
nineteen goals
debut (division two): 7 September 1907 Leicester Fosse
FC 2 Leeds City FC 2.
Chelsea FC 1908-09 45
appearances, thirteen goals
debut: 29 February 1908 Chelsea FC 2
Sunderland AFC 1.
Tottenham Hotspur FC
1909-11 45 appearances, 24 goals
debut: 11 December 1909
Tottenham Hotspur FC 1 Bolton Wanderers FC 1
Leicester
Fosse FC 1911-12 fourteen appearances, two goals
debut
(division two): 7 October 1911 Leicester Fosse FC 2
Bristol City FC 0
last (division two): 9 March 1912 Glossop FC 6
Leicester Fosse FC 0. |
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Club honours |
Cambridgeshire Senior Cup winners
1898-99; Haverhill & District League
winners 1899-1900;
Football League Division Two
runners-up 1907-08 (26ᵃ 19ᵍ) |
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Individual honours |
Football League (one
appearance) |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5'
7", 11st.
6lbs [1903]. 5' 6¼" [1916] |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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Management
Career |
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Club(s) |
Joined Hartlepools
United FC as a player-manager in the 1912 close season. Spent the 1913-14
season coaching FC Basel. Following the war, he was coaching Italian club
US Alessandria Calcio in 1920-22. He returned to coach in Switzerland
during 1923. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of
two who became the 288th
players (288) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Inside-right |
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Only match |
No. 79,
4 April 1903, England 1 Scotland 2,
a British Championship match at
Bramall Lane, Highfield, Sheffield, aged 22 years
122 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 |
Died nine days
after Jeff Hall |
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Beyond England |
No additional information. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.140.
Member of the 17th
Middlesex (Footballers') Regimental Battalion, joined 20 February 1915,
transferred to the 27th Middlesex on 5 November 1915, eventually
discharged 18 August 1916, 'being no longer physically fit for War
service'. In fact, he had a 'loss of internal semilunar cartilage of his
left-knee'. It occurred in December 1914 in Norwich, when he was 'playing
football and fell on knee-cap.' Military Service did not aggravate the
injury. |
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