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Bert
Lipsham |
Sheffield United FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P
1 W 0 D 1 L
0 F 0: A 0
50% successful
1902
captain:
none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Herbert Broughall Lipsham |
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Birth |
Monday, 29 April 1878
at 23 Pepper Street in Chester, Cheshire |
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registered in Chester April-June 1878 |
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Baptism |
Friday, 19 July 1878 at
St. Olave's Parish Church in Lower Bridge Street, Chester |
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Education |
King's School in Chester,
'he won a scholarship, and, before taking to football,
served as an accountant to the Official Receiver in
Bankruptcy.' |
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According to the 1881
census, Herbert is the eighth of nine children (six of them sons) to
Frederick and Eleanor Stokes (née Broughall). He also has a half-sister. Along with an aunt
and servant, they live at 20 Chichester Street in Chester. His father is
an accountant and auditor. |
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According to the 1891
census, there are three more children in the family, and although the
older ones have left, Herbert is now the sixth of the ten children, now
living at 17 Pepper Street in Chester, accompanied by an aunt. His father
remains an accountant. |
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According to the 1901
census, Herbert is a professional football lodging at 111 Cemetery Road in
Ecclesall Bierlow. He is one of two lodgers living with David and Mary
Coutts and their family. |
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Marriage |
to Alice Burkimsher,
on 25 March 1903, in Ecclesall Parish Church,
Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire |
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registered in Ecclesall Bierlow January-March 1903 |
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Children |
Bert and Alice Lipsham
had two sons together. Herbert William
(b.8 September 1903) and Leslie (b.20
January 1907). |
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At
the time of Herbert William's baptism, 11 November
1903, the new family were living at 142 Bramall Lane
in Sheffield. His father is a tobaccanist.
According to the 1911
census, Herbert is a Millwall FC professional footballer, now married to
Alice, with two sons, Herbert William and Leslie, and a mother-in-law.
They live at 19 Pulborough Road in Southfields in Wandsworth.
According to the London Electoral Register, the 1911 and 1912 registers
confirm Lipsham to be at 19 Pulborough Road. In 1913 however, he was at 9
Ardgowan Road, Catford. From 1914 to 1923, Herbert and Alice were living
at 81 Arbuthnot Road in Deptford. |
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According to the 1921 census, Herbert, a
superintendent head labour for the supply reserve department at the cattle
market in Deptford, still married, and with their two sons, a boarder and
a mother-in-law, they live at 81 Arbuthnot Road in Telegraph Hill.
According to Passenger Lists, Herbert Lipsham was a manager on 14 June
1923, as the Montcalm left Liverpool for Quebec. He and his wife, courtesy
of Canadian Railways, were emigrating to Canada.
His mother, Eleanor,
died in early 1928. |
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"SERIOUS ACCIDENT |
...Sheffield sportsmen
will regret to hear that Bert Lipsham has had the
misfortune to lose his right hand while at work in a
Toronto factory. He got it entangled in a machine and
it was crushed and severed at the wrist." - ."
- The Sheffield Daily
Independent, Thursday, 20 December 1923 |
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Death |
Tuesday, 22 March 1932 in Christie, Brown & Co., King
Street East, St. Lawrence, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Living at 418 Manor Road East at the time, where he
had lived for the nine years they had resided in
Canada.
Christie, Brown, & Co., was a biscuit manufacturer,
Canada's largest at the time. Lipsham died on the
factory floor. |
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aged
53 years 333 days |
Province of Ontario Certificate of
Registration of Death 1932 |
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Obituary |
"FAMOUS PLAYER'S DEATH
"A
message from Toronto states that Herbert B. Lipsham, a famous football
player, who was for eight years was a member of the Sheffield United team,
dropped dead there, yesterday, at his place of employment. He went to
Canada in 1923. Lipsham was a clever wing forward who gained international
honours, playing for England against Wales in 1902. He was born at Chester
in 1878, and first played for Sheffield United in League football at
outside-right against Aston Villa on March 3rd, 1900. He had previously
played for Crewe Alexandra in 1898-99. He played for the English League
against the Irish League on two occasions."
- The Liverpool Echo, Saturday, 26 March 1932
"BERT LIPSHAM DEAD—.TORONTO, Tuesday.
"The death occurred here following a heart attack to-day of Mr. Herbert B. Lipsham,
at the age of 54. He was taken ill while at his work. Lipsham was famous
in his younger days as a football player, and when with Sheffield United
as an outside-left he gained international honours. Lipsham also gained an
F.A. Cup medal in 1902 with the United, and in the same year he played for
England against Wales. For several seasons afterwards he was team manager
to Millwall, and before the War he occasionally turned out for the New
Cross side. When the F.A. concession was passed to the effect that amateur
clubs could engage professional coaches, West Norwood lost no time in
securing the services of Lipsham, and under his guidance the club had a
successful series pf seasons at their newly re-acquisitioned ground at
Herne Hill." - The Sheffield Daily Independent, Wednesday, 23
March 1932 |
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Funeral |
Saturday, 26 March 1932 at
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Mount Pleasant Road in
Toronto |
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His wife, Alice, died in 1964, and
is buried with Herbert in Mount Pleasant |
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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) |
Assisted St Oswald's FC and Chester SA FC before
joining Crewe Alexandra FC in 1898. Then Sheffield
United FC in February 1900. |
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"When Mr. John Nicholson
was over at Crewe endeavoring to come to terms with
Lipsham, who was employed in the Official receiver's
office in that town. Lipsham accompanied the United
secretary to the station, and the [express] train was
just on the point of leaving when he agreed to append
his signature to the United's forms. The station's
authorities agreed to wait a minute or two, and the
player and Mr. Nicholson hurried into a waiting room,
where everything was completed."
- The Sheffield Daily
Independent, Wednesday, 23 March 1932 |
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"Although it may not have become generally known,
it has been no secret in inner football circles that the Sheffield United
directors at their meeting last Wednesday evening suspended their
international left winger, H.B. Lipsham, for seven days for refusing to
play when selected for the United Reserves in the recent Wharncliffe
Charity Cup semi-final with the Wednesday Reserves. During a few minutes'
conversation at Bramall Lane on Saturday, Lipsham supplied me with a
statement as to his position. Briefly put, it was to the following effect.
When the United players were staying at Buxton at the beginning of last
December. Lipsham, who had been suffering from an injury, was informed by
one of the directors that a rule had been passed that all first team
players who had been on the injured list would in future be tested with
the Reserves before being restored to their place, and he was instructed
to go to Hull on December 7th and play in the Midland League match. He did
so, found his leg stand the trial, and was put in the first team again.
Subsequently he was again hurt and was out of the team for seven weeks.
Upon being told by the secretary that he was picked for the Reserve team
for last Monday, and elicitating that this was to try the soundness of his
leg, he absolutely declined to play, giving as his reason that during his
absence two other first eleven players, namely Benson and Wilkinson, had
suffered injury and been reinstated without a preliminary trial in the
Reserves, and that it was most unfair to treat him differently to other
players. The next he heard was that he was suspended. He considers that
after eight years' good service, including a period wherein he played in
105 matches in succession, he merited more consideration, and feels so
aggrieved that he has placed the matter before both the Football
Association and the Players' Union. He thinks the rule as to injured
players being first tested with the Reserves a good one, but thinks all
should be treated alike. He declares he will not kick another ball for
Sheffield United after the present season, and has informed the F.A. of
his decision" - Sheffield Daily Independent, Monday, 30 March
1908. |
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After falling out with the
United Directors, Lipsham joined Fulham FC on 3 April 1908.
Before joining Millwall Athletic FC in the 1910 close season, becoming the
player-manager on 5 May 1911. |
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League honours |
Sheffield United FC
1900-08
debut:
Fulham FC 1908-10
debut:
last: |
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Club honours |
FA Cup
runners-up 1900-01, winners 1901-02; |
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Individual honours |
Football League
(two appearances), Southern League
(two appearances). |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5'
9", 11st.
0lbs [1901], 5' 8" [1902], |
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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) |
Appointed
player-manager of Millwall Athletic FC on 5 May 1911, but resigned before
the War. He coached West Norwood FC from 24
August 1921, becoming manager of Northfleet FC on 4 August 1922 until early 1923. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of five who
became the 270th player (274) to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Outside-left |
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Only match |
No. 74, 3 March 1902, Wales 0
England 0, a British Championship match at
The
Racecourse, Mold Road, Wrexham, aged 23 years
308 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British
Championship 1901-02 |
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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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Lipsham was a member of the first management committee of
the PFA and later moved to Canada in June 1923 where he became involved in
the development of football. - An
English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming (1990).
Hatton Press, p.158. |
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The Numbers |
| parties |
Appearances |
comp. apps |
minutes |
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captain |
| 1 |
1 |
1 |
90 |
0 |
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 |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
=0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
50 |
=0 |
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His only match was played in the British Championship
competition and at an away venue |
Tournament
Record
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British Championship Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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BC 1907-08 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
=0 |
1 |
1 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
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BC
All |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
=0 |
1 |
1 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
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All Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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BC |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
=0 |
1 |
1 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
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1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
=0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
50 |
=0 |
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