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Edward Parry Old Carthusians AFC & Swifts FC & Remnants FC

3 appearances, 1 goal

P 3 W 1 D 0 L 2 F 6: A 11
33% successful

1879-82

captain: none
minutes played:
240

Timeline

  Edward Hagarty Parry
  "QUEEN'S COLLEGE.―The Rev. Edward St. John Parry, Baliol College, Oxon, has been unanimously elected resident Warden of this college:—"Mr. Parry is the eldest son of the Bishop of Barbadoes. He was ordained by the Bishop of Worcester in 1851. His great knowledge of young men gained in his own education in Rugby, his residence at Oxford, his experience in tuition at Winchester and at Trinity College, Toronto.." - The Royal Leaminton Spa and Warwickshire Standard, Saturday, 22 September 1855.
Birth Tuesday, 24 April 1855 at Trinity College, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
no registration found
According to the 1861 census, Edward is the third of seven children to West Indian-born Edward St. John and Lucy Susannah (née Tyler)(m.7 October 1851 in Bromsgrove). They live at 1 & 2 Beauchamp Terrace in Leamington Priors, Leamington. His father is the headmaster of Leamington College.
According to the 1871 census, Edward Hagarty is a boarder at the Suttons Hospital in Charterhouse, in the Holborn area of London.
According to the 1881 census, Edward H. is a classical tutor at Stoke House, living in Wexham Road in the Stoke Green area of Slough, Buckinghamshire.
Marriage to Amélie Martha Piquét on 1 August 1883 at St. Mary's Church in Harrow on the Hill
registered in Hendon July-September 1883
"PARRY-PIQUET.―At Harrow-on-the-Hill, on the 1st inst., by the Rev. L. R. Phelps, assisted by the Rev. F. H. Joyce, E. H. Parry, Esq, son of the Rev. E. St. John Parry, of Stoke House, near Slough, to Amelie Martha, daughter of Monsieur Piquét, of Millieres, Bourbon-Lancy, France, and Geneva." Bucks Herald, Saturday, 11 August 1883.
Children: Edward and Amélie Parry had six children together. Nevill Edward (b.1884 (left)), Henry Anthony Mervyn (b.1886), John Theodore (b.1888), Theodora Ethel (b.12 February 1889), Adela Amy (b.15 June 1890) and Pauline Grace (b.1891).
(His father died on 12 September 1896)
According to the 1891 census, Edward H. is now married to Amelia M. and they have five children, Nevill, Henry, John, Theodora and Adela. They also have four servants. They remain at Eton, where Edward is still a tutor and his father is also a private schoolmaster, his mother and siblings also reside. They remain at Wexham Road.
DEATHS―."September 12, at Forelands, Godalming, the Rev. Edward St. John Parry, of Stoke House, Stoke Poges, aged 71, the eldest son of the late Thomas Parry, Lord Bishop of Barbadoes." Uxbridge & West Drayton Gazette, Saturday, 19 September 1896.
According to the 1901 census, Edward, still a schoolmaster, still married, and with one more child, Pauline. They live in Stoke House on the schoolgrounds in Stoke Poges.
(His mother died on 10 February 1907 in Cambridge, his son, John, also died later in the year)
He
, or his family, cannot be found on the 1911 census, but he was still a headmaster at Stoke House.
According to the 1921 census, Edward is a retired schoolmaster, still married, and with one servant, they live at 3 Burnham Villas on Paradise Road in Richmond-upon-Thames.
(Amélie Parry died on 6 December 1929).
Death Sunday, 19 July 1931 at his home, 19 Dovedale Road in West Bridgeford, Nottinghamshire
aged 76 years 86 days registered in Basford, July-September 1931
Funeral Wednesday, 22 July 1931 at St Mary's Church in Plumtree, Nottinghamshire, buried with Amélie.
"Mr. Edward Hagarty Parry, late of Stoke House, Stoke Poges, died at [19], Dovedale-road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, on Sunday, at the age of 76 years. The funeral was at Plumtree Church on Wednesday." - Uxbridge & West Drayton Gazette, Friday, 24 July 1931.
Probate "PARRY Edward Hagarty of 19 Dovedale-road West Bridgford Nottinghamshire died 19 July 1931 Probate London 18 September to Thomas Archibald Montgomerie Hill manufacturer.
Effects £3311 12s. 5d." [2019 equivalent: £227,242]
Source Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & Gillie Turner (great grandaughter)
Playing Career
Clubs: Attended Charterhouse School, playing for them from 1872, attaining captain in 1873 and 1874.  Went onto Oxford University, earning his Blue between 1875 and 1877, again, becoming captain in 1877.  He played for Old Carthusians AFC, Swifts FC, Remnants FC, Stoke Poges FC and Windsor FC;
Club honours: FA Cup runners-up 1876-77, winners 1880-81 (both as captain);
Individual honours: Berkshire & Buckinghamshire FA.
Distinctions: Being Canadian-born, Edward is the first foreign-born captain to lift the FA Cup in 1881.
Height/Weight not known
Source Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].
England Career
Player number One of six who became the 57th players (59) to appear for England.
Position(s) Forward, inside/outside-right.
First match No. 8, 18 January 1879, England 2 Wales 1, a friendly match at The Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington, London, aged 23 years 269 days.
Last match No. 16, 13 March 1882, Wales 5 England 3, a friendly match at The Racecourse, Mold Road, Wrexham, aged 26 years 323 days. 37 min
Individual honours The South (one appearance, March 1880, postponed January 1879);
The Probables
(one appearance, one goal, March 1882)
Distinctions Died 27 days after Jacky Pearson
Beyond England
Served on the FA Committee 1881. A Schoolmaster, he taught at Falsted 1879-80 and Stoke House School, Slough 1881-92, then serving as Headmaster there until his retirement in 1918. After which he moved to West Bridgford, where he helped to run the Officers' Family Fund to aid the families of servicemen killed in the First World War. - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.192./Leftlion.co.uk


The Numbers
parties Appearances minutes Goals ave.min captain
3 3 240 1 240 min none
The minutes here given can only ever be a guideline and cannot therefore be accurate, only an approximation.
P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
3 1 0 2 6 11 -5 0 0 2 3.667 33.3 -1
All of his matches were friendly matches

Match Record

Venue P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
Home 1 1 0 0 2 1 +1 0 0 2.00 1.00 100.0 +1
Away 2 0 0 2 4 10 -6 0 0 2.00 5.00 00.0 -2

Match History
 
 Clubs: Old Carthusians A.F.C. Swifts F.C. & Remnants F.C. - three full appearances (240 min) 1ᵍ  
  F.A. Committee - three full appearances (240 min) 1ᵍx

Age 23 trial  
postponed - The North vs. The South, 4/25 January 1879

apps match match details comp res. rundown pos

1 8 18 January 1879 - England 2 Wales 1
The Surrey Cricket Ground, Kennington
Fr HW match lasted sixty minutes for
    

one of five who became the 57th (59) players to appear for England
the first Old Carthusian to represent England
the fourth player from Swifts FC to represent England
the first player from Remnants FC to represent England

Age 24 trial  
one appearance - The South vs. The North, March 1880

Age 26    
one appearance - The Improbables vs. The Probables, 4 March 1882

2 15 11 March 1882 - Scotland 5 England 1
Hampden Park, Glasgow
Fr AL   ir
3 16 13 March 1882 - Wales 5 England 3
The Racecourse, Wrexham
AL 37 or
    


  

 
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