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Charles
Learoyd |
Royal Engineers FC
uncapped
1880 |
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Timeline |
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Lieutenant Colonel
Charles Douglas
Learoyd |
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Birth |
Sunday, 23 October 1859 in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire
[registered in Huddersfield, December 1859] |
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According to
the 1861 census, Charles D. is the youngest of
four children to Charles William and Isobel. Along with three servants,
they live at Hare Dell in Huddersfield. His father is a woollen
manufacturer. |
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According to
the 1871 census, 11 year-old Charles is a
pupil in Worksop. |
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According to
the 1881 census, Charles Douglas, a Lieutenant
in the Royal Engineers, is still the youngest, and all four children
remain at home. They live at Headlands House in Huddeersfield, with four
servants. His father is still a woollen manufacturer. |
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Cannot be found on the 1891 census. |
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Marriage |
to Mary Clayton Cockburn, Thursday, 5
October 1893 at St. Mark's Church in Surbiton, Surrey
[registered in Kingston, December 1893] |
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Cannot be found on the 1901 census. |
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Hart's Annual Army List
in 1908 confirms that Charles Douglas Learoyd, of York, had been a
Lieutenant since 18 December 1878, captain 19 March 1889, a Major on 24
March 1897, a Brevet Lieutenant Colonel on 29 November 1900 and a
Lieutenant Colonel on 1 October 1904. |
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According to the 1911 Charles D. is married to Mary
Clayton, and one of their two children, John Cockburn, lives with them,
alongside five servants, at Stackley House in Leicester. He is a retired
colonel. |
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Kelly's Director of
Leicestershire & Rutland in 1912-16 places Learoyd in Stackley House,
Great Glen.
Then, the Gloucestershire Electoral Registers confirm
Charles was living at Whiteshoots in Bourton-on-the-Water between 1919 and
1920.
By 1931, he was based at Redlynch Park, and could be called on
Bruton 2 in Somerset. |
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According to the 1939 register, Charles, signing himself as
Learoyd-Cockburn, a widower, and a retired Colonel in the Royal Engineers
is living at Calcot Golf Club, in Berkshire. |
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Death |
Sunday, 29 December 1946 at Ayresham
House, Brackley, aged 89 years 67 days [registered in
Brackley, Northamptonshire, December 1946] |
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Probate |
"COCKBURN
Charles Douglas Learoyd of Ayresham House Brackley
Northamptonshire died 29
December 1946 Probate
London 23 April to John
Cockburn Cockburn retired colonel H.M. army and Richard Cockburn Cockburn
liutenant-commander R.N..
Effects £39280 19s. 2d."
[2019 equivalent: £1,548,502] |
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Source |
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
Played for
Royal Engineers 1879-1880. |
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Club honours |
not known |
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Height/Weight |
5' 6" 11st 3lb [1915] |
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England Career |
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Position(s) |
right sided Forward |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
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Learoyd became a
Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1878, and served in Sudan from 1885
and Burma in 1886. |
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