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Herbert Rawson |
Royal Engineers FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D
1 L 0 F 2: A 2
50% successful
1875
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Substantive Colonel Herbert Edward
Rawson |
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Birth |
Friday, 3 September 1852 in Port Louis,
Plaines Wilhems, British Mauritius |
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no registration found |
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"At Mauritius, on the 3rd.
of September, the wife of the Hon. Rawson W. Rawson, Esq., Treasurer and
Paymaster General of that colony, of a son."
- Limerick Chronicle, Wednesday, 10
November 1852/Oxford Chronicle & Reading Gazette, Saturday, 13 November 1852 |
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According to the 1861
census, is living with his uncle and aunty, Frederick and Frances Jane
Hewlett, in St.Augustine's, The Rectory in Ticehurst, in East Sussex.
Herbert is the second child to Rawson William and Sophia Marianne (née
Ward). |
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According to the 1871
census, Herbert E. is a gentleman cadet in the Army Service Corps
Barracks at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, London.
The
Army Lists reveal that Rawson joins the Royal Engineers as a Lieutenant on 12 September
1872, nine months after Pelham von Donop. |
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Marriage |
to Elizabeth Georgina Stuart Armstrong,
on Thursday, 8 July 1875, at Christ Church in Kingstown, county
Dublin |
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not registered in UK |
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"RAWSON―ARMSTRONG―July
8, at Christ Church, Kingstown, Co. Dublin, by the Rev. Fredk. Cavendish
and the Rev. Latham Coddington Warren. Herbert Edward Rawson, Esq., R.E.,
second son of Rawson W. Rawson, C.B., to Elizabeth Stuart, eldest daughter
of Richard Owen Armstrong, Esq., Clifton Terrace, Monkstown, Dublin."
- Belfast News-letter, Saturday, 10 July 1875. |
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Cannot be found on the 1881
census.
Promoted to the rank of captain in the Royal Engineers on 12 September
1884. |
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"DEATHS |
...RAWSON―August
12, at Valetta, Malta, Elizabeth Stewart, wife of Captain Herbert E.
Rawson, R.E."
- Belfast News-letter, Saturday, 15 August 1885. |
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According to the 1891
census, Herbert E. is a captain in the Royal Engineers visiting the
Russell family in Ewhurst House, Prospect Lane in Andover.
Became
the rank of
Major in the Royal Engineers, 31 December 1891.
Served
as Lieutenant-Colonel from 7 July 1899, and fought in the Boer War 1899-1902.
(His father died on 20 November 1899)
Colonel Brevet 29 November 1900. |
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Not eligible for the 1901
census.
Returned to his appointment as Lieut-Colonel on 7 July 1904
before being awarded as a substantive Colonel on 25 February 1905. |
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Rawson, H.E. (Col.)— |
S.African
War, 1899-1902.—C.R.E., Lines of Commn. Natal, from 3 Nov. 99;
afterwards C.R.E. Natal Dist. (from 1 Jan. 02) Relief of Ladysmith,
including operations on Tugela Heights, 14 to 27 Feb. 00, and action at
Pieters Hill. Operations in the Transvaal in May and Jun. 00. Operations
in the Transvaal in May and Jun. 00. Operations in Natal Mar. to Jun.00,
including action at Laings Nek (6 to 9 Jun.).
Operations on the Zululand
Frontier of Natal in Sept. and Oct. 01. Despatches (Sir R.H. Buller, 30 Mar.,
19 Jun. and 9 Nov. 00), Lond. Gaz., 8 Feb. 01, and 29 July 02. Brev. of
Col. Queen's medal with 4 clasps. King's medal 2ith 2 clasps. |
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According to the 1911 census, retired Colonel
Herbert, a widower, lives with his younger sister, Norah, and two servants
( a cook and a parlour maid), at Home Close in Heronsgate.
(His
mother died 1 March 1912) |
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According to the 1921 census, retired Colonel
Herbert, still lives with his younger sister, Norah, and now a cousin,
Mary Wardle, and just one servant, still at Home Close in Heronsgate. |
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Death |
Saturday, 18 October 1924
at 46 St. George's Road in Westminster, London. Lived at Home Close in Heronsgate, Hertfordshire. |
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aged
72 years 45 days |
registered in St George Hanover Square
October-December 1924 |
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Obituary |
"PLAYED IN FIRST
CUP-TIE
"A year ago Colonel C. K. Wood, late of the Royal Engineers,
who had played in the first Association Cup-tie died. Last Saturday there
died Colonel Herbert Edward Rawson C.B., also formerly of the Royal
Engineers, who played in the Cup-ties of 1874 and 1875. In the former year
he played Association football for England and kept wicket for Kent.
Service with a Submarine Mining Company at Bermuda deprived him of further
chances of first class cricket. He was thrice mentioned in dispatches
during the Boer War and went in for aeronautics and other sciences. As a
hobby he experimented in hybridisation of plants, and it was reported of
him that he claimed to be able to change the species of a plant in two
generations. An old comrade in arms tells me that Colonel Rawson was the
last survivor of the R.E. eleven which played in the first Cup-ties."
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Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Tuesday, 21 October 1924 |
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Probate |
"RAWSON
Herbert Edward of Home Close Heronsgate
Hertfordshire died 18
October 1924 at 46 St. George's-road Westminster Middlesex Probate
London 12 December to Norah
Louisa Rawson spinster.
Effects £2536 8s. 6d."
[2019 equivalent: £155,337] |
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William
Rawson died 4 November 1932 |
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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) |
Rawson was
educated at Westminster School. He represented the school at
football between 1869 and 1871, becoming captain in his final year. After leaving school he joined Royal Engineers FC. |
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Club honours |
FA Cup
runners-up 1873-74, winners 1874-75; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Played
one first-class cricket match as a wicketkeeper for Kent in 1873. |
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Height/Weight |
not known |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of six who became the 28th players
(32) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Forward |
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Only match |
No. 4, 6 March
1875, England 2 Scotland 2, a friendly match at
The Surrey Cricket Ground,
The Oval, Kennington, London, aged 22 years
184 days. |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Brother of William,
first brothers to play in same match - first to debut together. |
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Beyond England |
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Served in the Royal Engineers
1872-1909, retiring with the rank of Colonel. Posted overseas in 1874. He
received the silver-gilt CB - the fourth most senior of the British Orders
of Chivalry - and was one of the first people in Heronsgate to install a
telephone. In his Who’s Who entry, he simply listed his telephone contact
detail as "Chorleywood West". His medals were auctioned in 2013. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.203./BucksFreePress |
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The Numbers |
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parties |
Appearances |
minutes |
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captain |
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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
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
50 |
=0 |
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His only match was a friendly match and at a home venue |
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