|
Jack
Parkinson |
Liverpool FC
2 appearances, 0 goals
P 2 W 1 D
0 L 1 F 1: A 2
50% successful
1910
captain: none
minutes played: 180 |
|
 |
|
Timeline |
|
|
John Parkinson |
|
Birth |
Friday, 21 September 1883 in Bootle-cum-Linacre, Lancashire |
|
|
registered in West Derby & Toxteth Park October-December 1883 |
|
Baptism |
Sunday, 14 October 1883 in St. John's
Church, Bootle-cum-Linacre, by J.G. McGonigle |
|
|
According to the 1891
census, John is the second of four children to Thomas Lambert and Ann Jane (née
Cameron), living at 2 Malcolm Street in Bootle-cum-Linacre. His father is
a railway carter. |
|
|
According to the 1901
census, John is a railway clerk and is now the second of six children,
still at home with their parents, still at 2 Malcolm Street. |
|
"Footballers' Race at Dundee |
The Dundee Football Club got
a very moderate return for their enterprise in bringing together at Den's
Park, on Saturday, half a score of the latest professional football
players in England and Scotland. They put up £20 in three prizes of £12, £5,
and £3, and the local papers made the most of the rivalry.... This
brought [Jack] Cox, [Micky] Noon, [Sammy] McClure, and [Jack] Parkinson together
in the final, and produced a grand race...Parkinson finished the stronger
and was a winner the last ten yards, breaking the tape half a yard from
Cox. The time was returned as 10 1·5sec." -
The Athletic News, Monday, 7 August 1905 |
|
Marriage |
to Winifred Murray in summer 1907 in Liverpool. Living in Balfour Road. |
|
|
registered in West Derby & Toxteth Park July-September 1907 |
|
Children |
Jack and Winnie Parkinson have five children together.
John Cameron (b.16 February 1908), Winifred
(b.9 January 1910), twins Ewen & Elsie (b.18 July 1914), and
Eric (b.28 January 1922). |
|
His father died in 1909. |
"FOOTRACING FOOTBALLERS
|
Jack Parkinson, of the Liverpool F.C., and
[Billy]
Stevenson, of Everton, ran a match of 100 yards at the Liverpool Pembroke
sports. Stevenson won by six inches, his time being a yard inside 10
3·5sec." - The
Bolton Evening News, Monday, 13 July 1910
Ran in a thunderstorm |
|
According to the 1911 census, John, a
professional footballer, newsagent and tobacconist, is married to Winifred
and living at 193 Breck Road in Everton, along with their two children,
John and Winifred. Also his mother-in-law, Mary Ellen, and sister-in-law,
Annie Murray, and his own sister, Nellie. |
Parkinson was one of the four pallbearers at Anfield
Cemetery on Tuesday,11 November 1919, for the funeral of former clubmate,
Ted Doig.
According to the 1921
census, John, now just a newsagent and tobacconist, is still married, and
with his eldest daughter, there are two more children, Elsie and Ewan.
They live at 145 Breck Road in Everton, still with his mother-in-law and
sister-in-law.
His mother died in early 1930. |
|
"Liverpool followers will join in sympathy extended to Mr. Jack
Parkinson, the great centre-forward of other days, in the death of Mrs.
Parkinson early to-day." - The Liverpool Echo, Tuesday, 2
July 1935 |
According to the 1939 register, John, working as a wholesale newsagent, is
now a widow, and lives at 6 Strathmore Road, Liverpool, still along with his
sister-in-law, Annie Murray, a shop assistant. They live with four more
staff.
Incidentally, his sons, John and Ewan, live next door, at 20
Denman Drive. |
|
Death |
Sunday night, 13 September
1942 at Northern Hospital, Great Howard Street, Liverpool,
Lancashire |
|
aged
58 years 357 days |
registered in Liverpool South July-September 1942 |
|
"PARKINSON—Sept
13. JOHN PARKINSON, dearly-beloved father of Jack, Ewen, Eric, and Elsie,
(Vale, God keep you.)..." |
|
Obituary |
"JACK
PARKINSON DEAD
"Mr. Jack Parkinson, the former Liverpool
Football Club centre forward, who played for England against Scotland and
Wales in 1910, died in Liverpool last night. Mr. Parkinson was in business
in Commutation-row, Liverpool , for many years and was chairman of the
Mersey and District Wholesale and Retail Newsagents."
- Evening Express, Monday, 14 September
1942 |
|
Funeral |
Wednesday, 16
September 1942 at Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool |
|
"PARKINSON,
JACK (Duke of Edinburgh Lodge, No
1182)—The Worshipful Master requests the attendance of
Brethren to pay their tribute to our departed brother, at Anfield
Cemetery, to-morrow (Wednesday), at 2.30 p.m. Assemble at 2.15 p.m." -
The Liverpool Echo, Tuesday, 17 September 1942 |
|
Probate |
"PARKINSON
John of 6 Strathmore-road
Liverpool 6
died 13 September 1942
at Northern Hospital Liverpool 16 Administration (with Will)
Liverpool
9 August to Ewan Parkinson wholesale newsagent and tobacconist.
Effects £24333 17s. 1d."
[2025 equivalent: £993,352] |
|
Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990], Tony Onslow & |
|
Playing
Career |
Club(s) |
Assisted Merseyside junior clubs, Hertford Albion FC and Valkyrie FC,
before signing amateur forms with Liverpool FC during 1901-02. Turned
professional 4 October 1902. After breaking into the first team, his
Anfield career was hampered by injury. Signed for Bury FC
on 21 August 1914. Retiring through the war. |
League honours
206 appearances, 127 goals |
Liverpool FC
1903-14 202 appearances, 124 goals
debut: 3 October 1903 Small Heath FC
1 Liverpool FC 2 .
Bury FC 1914 four appearances, three goals
debut
(division two): 5 September 1914 Bury FC 2 Bristol City FC 1.
last
(division two): 19 September 1914 Preston North End FC 2 Bury FC 0. |
Club honours |
Football League Division Two winners 1904-05
(21ᵃ 20ᵍ);
Division One
Champions 1905-06 (9ᵃ 7ᵍ), runners-up 1909-10 (31ᵃ
30ᵍ);
The Sheriff of London's Charity Shield winners 1906;
FA Cup runners-up 1913-14 (2ᵃ); |
| Individual honours |
Football League (three appearances) |
|
Goalscoring records |
Football League Division One Top Goalscorer 1909-10
(30); |
|
Distinctions |
None |
|
Height/Weight |
5'
9", 12st.
0lbs [1910]. |
|
Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
|
England Career |
|
Player number |
349th
player to appear for England. |
|
Position(s) |
Centre-forward |
|
First match |
No. 106, 14 March 1910, Wales 0 England 1, a British Championship match at
Cardiff Arms Park, Temperance Town, Cardiff, aged
26 years
174 days. |
|
Last match |
No. 107, 2 April 1910,
Scotland
2 England 0,
a British Championship match at
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow, aged 26 years 193 days. |
|
Major tournaments |
British Championship
1909-10; |
|
Team honours |
None |
|
Individual honours |
The North (one appearance, 2ᵍ
February 1905);
The Stripes (one appearance, 1ᵍ
January 1910). |
|
Distinctions |
Died the same day as Arthur
Dorrell and seventeen days after
George Holley |
|
Beyond England |
|
After leaving football, Jack had two
newsagent/tobacconist shops in Liverpool. When he died he was chairman of
the Mersey and District Council of Wholesale and Retail Newsagents. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.191. |
England
Football Online
