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Charlie
Richards |
Nottingham
Forest FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1
W 1
D 0 L 0 F
3:
A 2
100% successful
1898
disciplined:
none
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Profile |
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Full name |
Charles Henry Richards |
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Born |
9 August 1875 in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire
[registered in
Burton, September 1875]. |
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Census Notes |
According to the 1881
census, Charles Hy. is the sixth of eight children to John and Charlotte (née Hodgkins).
They live at 8 Victoria Street in Burton-on-Trent. His father is a brewers
labourer. |
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According to the 1891
census, Charles H. is also now a brewers labourer, and is one of five
children at 335 Uxbridge Street in Burton with is widowed father, who
remains a brewers labourer also. |
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According to the 1901
census, Charlie is a professional football player boarding with his wife,
Annie, at the home of Chris Harper, at 64 Liverton Street in Cleethorpes. |
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According to the 1911
census, 'C' is an invald hewer living with his wife at 83 Kennington Road
in Radford area of Nottingham. Along with the twelve year old Mabel, they
have a two month old son, Leslie. The census reveals that four more of
their children have tragically died. |
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Married |
to
Mary Anne Elliott, on 22 May 1897 at St. Peter's Church, Radford
[registered in Nottingham, June 1897]. |
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Died |
27 April 1911
at his home, 83 Kennington Road, Radford, Nottingham,
aged 35 years 230 days
[registered in Nottingham, June 1911] from Myocarditis Acute,
Syncope. |
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Height/Weight |
5'
6", 11st.
11lbs [1898]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990], FindMyPast.com
& John Coyle, Doncaster Rovers FC historian |
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Club Career |
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Club(s) |
Began his junior career
with Gresley Rovers FC, then Newsyead Byron FC, before joining Notts County FC in 1895. Joined
rivals Nottingham Forest FC at the beginning of 1896
and
from January of that year, made 74 league appearances, scoring twenty goals. He moved onto
Grimsby Town FC in December 1898, making
another eighty league appearances, and scoring another 42 goals. Transferred to Leicester Fosse FC in
June 1901 for another 25 league appearances and
five goals, and finally to the recently renamed Manchester United FC for
the end of the 1901-02 season, making just
eight league outings, scoring once. In March 1903, Richards joined Doncaster Rovers FC. He made a final
seven league appearances, but it was not enough to keep Rovers up
and both Doncaster and Richards dropped out of the league. |
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Club honours |
FA Cup winner
1897-98; Football League Division Two
winners 1900-01; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & John Coyle. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of
four who became 236th
players (238) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Inside-right |
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Only match |
No. 62, 5 March 1898,
Ireland 2
England 3, a British
Championship match at
Cliftonville Gardens,
Cliftonville, Belfast, aged 22 years
208 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1897-98; |
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Team honours |
British Championship winners 1897-98; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Died six days after John Sands |
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Beyond England |
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His 1911 census details reveal that Richards
returned to the coal mines, where he worked as a hewer in one of the pits
near in or near Radford. |
