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Ambrose
Langley |
Wednesday
Club
reserve
1898 |
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Timeline |
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Ambrose Langley |
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Birth |
Thursday, 10 March 1870 at 'The Coach & Horses' public house, 6 South Street, Horncastle, Lincolnshire |
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registered
in Horncastle April-June 1870 |
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According to the 1871 census,
one year old Ambrose is the youngest of six children to Robert Thomasin
and Eliza (née Smith) living at The Coach & Horses on South Street in
Horncastle. His father is the publican and brewer. |
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Baptism |
Thursday, 16 February 1873 in Horncastle |
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(His father would di on 27 May 1873)
According to the 1881 census,
eleven year old Ambrose, a scholar, is now the youngest of four living
with their widowed mother, a laundress, at 2 Accomadation Lane in
Horncastle.
(His mother died in early 1884) |
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According to the 1891 census, 21 year old Ambrose,
now a photographer, is boarding with The Taylor family at 11 Edward Street
in Clee with Weelsby. |
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Marriage |
to Lucy Ann Smith on Saturday, 23 July 1898 in Horncastle |
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registered
in Horncastle July-September 1898 |
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Children |
Ambrose and Lucy Langley had two children together. Nellie
(b.15 October 1899) and Sydney (b.1901) |
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According to the 1901 census, 31 year old Ambrose,
now a professional football player, is now married to Lucy, and with their
daughter, they live at 18 Shepperson Road in Ecclesfield, along with his
sister-in-law, Ada Smith.
The 1902-05 West Yorkshire Electoral
Registers confirms his address in Ecclesfield.
The White's
Directory of Sheffield & Rotherham 1905 states Ambrose is a professional
footballer living at 41 Shepperson Road, Hillsborough. |
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According to the 1911 census, Ambrose, now stated as being 39, is still
married, and is now a manager of Hull City AFC and now with a son. They
all live at 123 De La Pole Avenue in Hessle.
According to White's
Directory of 1913 Ambrose, a manager, still living at 123 De La Pole
Avenue, and by 1919, Ambrose was back in Sheffield, at 82 Dorothy Road in
Hillsborough. |
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According to the 1921 census, fifty year old Ambrose, still a football
manager, now at Huddersfield Town AFC, still married, still with two
children, and living at 82 Dorothy Road in Hillsborough area of Sheffield. |
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Death |
Friday, 29 January 1937, at Firvale Infirmary, 12 Herries Road in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire |
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aged 66 years 325 days |
registered
in Sheffield January-March 1937 |
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Funeral |
February 1937 in Burngreave Cemetery, Sheffield,
currently unmarked |
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Probate |
'LANGLEY
Ambrose
of Pheasant Inn
London-road
Sheffield
died 29 January 1937 at 12 Herries-road
Sheffield
Administration (with Will)
Wakefield
19 May to Lucy Ann Langley widow.
Effects £482 19s 10d.'
[2024 equivalent: £27,021]. |
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
Langley began his
football career with his local club, Horncastle FC. Boston FC and then Grimsby Town FC of the
Football Alliance signed him in 1889. Middlesbrough Ironopolis then signed
Langley in 1891, before Aston Villa FC made enquiries. But his refusal to
undergo an examination on his knee resulted in him remaining in Teesside.
However, a move did materialise, to Sheffield club, Wednesday, in 1893. Appointed as a
player-manager of Hull City FC on 27 April 1905 and played just the one season. |
League honours
307+1 appearances 14 goals |
Wednesday Club
1893-1905 293+one appearances, fourteen
goals
debut: 2
September 1893 Wednesday FC 2 Sunderland AFC 2
Hull City FC
1905-06 fourteen appearances
debut (second division): 2
September 1905 Hull City FC 4 Barnsley 1.
last (second division):
24 February 1906 Hull City FC 0 Bristol City FC 3. |
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Club honours |
Northern League winners
1891-92, 1892-93;
Football League Division Two winners 1899-1900 (30
5); Division One Champions 1902-03 (34 5), 1903-04 (8 1);
FA Cup
winners 1895-96 (3ᵃ); |
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Individual honours |
Football League (one appearance 1898) |
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Distinctions |
none |
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Height/Weight |
5' 11½" 14st [1895-96]; Doug Lamming states
he was 'six feet tall, weighing 14
stones in his prime'. |
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Management Career |
Club(s)
League history
P 355 W 165
D 73 L 117 |
Appointed as a
player-manager on 27 April 1905 and become full-time manager the following season.
He resigned his position at City on 4 April 1913, to become the assistant
secretary back at The Wednesday FC. On 4 September 1915, he also became
the club trainer. Following the war, appointed as a manager at Huddersfield Town AFC on 26
April 1919, he resigned on 25 March 1921 following 'friction' with the
newer members of the board. The commute between Sheffield and Huddersfield
on a daily basis was alos taking its toll. |
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League honours |
Hull City FC
1905-13 ten appearances one goal
Football League Division Two third place 1909-10
FA Cup best third round 1910-11
Huddersfield Town FC 1919-21
Football League
Division Two runners-up 1919-20
FA Cup
runners-up 1919-20 |
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England Career |
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Player number |
Did not appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Full-back, predominantly on the left, changing to the
right by the end of his career |
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Major tournaments |
None |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
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Traded as a photographer before becoming a footballer, and became
a publican when the game gave him up. |
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