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Charles
Smith |
Crystal Palace
(amateur) FC & Wanderers FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D 0 L 1 F 0:
A 3
0% successful
1876
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Charles
Eastlake Smith |
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Birth |
Friday, 4 October 1850 in Kollupitiya, Colombo, Ceylon |
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no registration found |
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"CEYLON BIRTHS.—At
Colpetty, 4th October, the lady of Mr. James Smith, of a son."
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The Bombay Gazette and Indian Daily News, Friday, 25 October 1850. |
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Not on
the 1851 census. |
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His younger sister, Ann Palgrave was also
born in Ceylon in c.1853. Then Matilda was born in India, c.1855. Gertrude
Catherine was born in Germany in c.1857, and Elizabeth Ellen was born in
Liverpool c.1860. |
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Education |
Attended Rossall School, Fleetwood. 1861-70,
along with his brother, Donald Rigby. |
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According to
the 1861 census, Charles is the second child of six, to Edinburgh-born
James and Ann Matilda (née Rigby), born in Norwich, and they live at 17 Falkner Square in
Liverpool. His father is an East Indian Merchant. They have four servants. |
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According to the 1871 census,
Charles E. is still the second son of six, living at 21 Longton Grove in
Lewisham. His father is an East Indian merchant. |
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Marriage |
to Lizzie E. Cooper, on 27 May 1880, at St. Bartholomew's Church in
Sydenham |
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registered in Lewisham
April-June 1880 |
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"SMITH―COOPER.―May 27th, at St. Bartholomew's
Church, Sydenham, by the Rev. Huyshaw Yeatman, assisted by the Rev. Paul
Wyatt, Charles Eastlake, second son of James Smith, Longton-grove,
Sydenham, to Lizzie, elder daughter of the late George P. Cooper and Mrs.
Cooper, of Lethen Grange, Sydenham."
- London Evening Standard, Saturday, 29 May 1880 |
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Children |
Charles and Lizzie Smith had two children together. Charles Eastlake
(b.25 July 1881) and Gladys Shirley Eastlake (b.14 August
1883) |
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According to the 1881 census,
Charles E. is an Insurance Clerk living at 67 Longton Road in Lewisham. He
is married to Lizzie E. and they have two servants. |
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"BIRTHS |
SMITH.―on
the 25th inst., at 67, Longton-grove, Sydenham, the wife of Charles
Eastlake Smith, of a son"
- Norwood News Penge & Anerley Chronicle &
Advertiser for Woodside Selhurst and Croydon, Saturday, 30 July 1881 |
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"SMITH.―on
the 14th inst., at 67, Longton-grove, Sydenham, the wife of Charles
Eastlake Smith, of a daughter"
- Norwood News Penge & Anerley Chronicle & Advertiser for Woodside Selhurst and
Croydon/South London Press, Saturday, 18 August 1883. |
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The 1887-91 London
Electoral Registers state that Charles Eastlake Smith is living at Weston
Lea, on the Crystal Palace Park Road in Sydenham.
According to the 1891 census,
Charles E. is an manager & manufacturer living at Ventnor House on
Hambrough Road, in Ventnor, a seaside resort on the Isle of Wight, with
his wife and two children, Claud E. and Gladys S. They have one servant. |
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"The will (dated January 28, 1892),
with a codicil (dated August 30, 1893), of Dame Elizabeth Eastlake, widow
of the late Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, P.R.A., of 7, Fitzroy-square, who
died on October 2, was proved on January 1 by Miss Jessie Lewin and
Charles Eastlake Smith, the nephew, the executors, the value of the
personal estate amounting to over
£20,000... She also bequeaths
£3,000
upon trust, for her said sister for life, then as to two-thirds for the
said Charles Eastlake Smith.... The residue of her property to her nephew
Charles Eastlake Smith." - Ludlow Advertiser, Saturday, 20 January 1894 [2018 equivalent = £2,4761,264]
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"DEATHS |
"COOPER.―on
the 29th ult., at Fairbank, Sydenham (the residence of her son-in-low
Charles Eastlake Smith), Eliza Cooper, of 27, Bramham-gardens, widow of
George P. Cooper, of Southwood, Hildenborough, aged 77."
- Norwood News Penge & Anerley Chronicle & Advertiser for Woodside Selhurst and Croydon, Saturday, 2 October 1897. |
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The 1900-03 London
Electoral Register reveals Charles Eastlake Smith address as being
Fairbank, 59 Crystal Palace Park Road, in Upper Sydenham.
According to the 1901 census,
Charles Eastlake is living by his own means at 59 Crystal Palace Park Road. He is still married and
live with their son. They
also have four servants. |
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"MARRIAGES |
WEDDING OF MISS
GLADYS S. SMITH
"At St. Bartholomew's Church, Sydenham, on Wednesday,
the marriage took place of Miss Gladys Shirley Eastlake, daughter of Mr.
Charles Eastlake Smith, of Fairbank, Sydenham, and Mr. Wharram H.
Lamplough, M.D., of Bredon, Alverstoke, Hants.
"The bride, who was
given away by her father, wore a white satin charmeuse Empire gown, with
embroidered silver belt the skirt caught up with silver and white tassels,
underneath which was shown an old Jambour lace shawl, the gift of the
bride's mother. The bodice was swathed to correspond with Jambour lace and
silver embroidery." - Saturday, 16 May 1908, Norwood News
Penge & Anerley Chronicle & Advertiser for Woodside Selhurst and Croydon. |
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The 1910-15 London
Electoral Register reveals Charles Eastlake Smith address as still being
at 59 Crystal Palace Park Road.
According to the 1911 census,
Charles remains married to Lizzie, but is not head of the household, that
is his wife. The next name on the list, Kathleen Hussey, a live-in Sick
Nurse, because Charles is 'deaf and feeble-minded result of a stroke'.
They still live at Fairbank. Their son, Claud remains with them,
but the census reveals there is another sibling. |
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Death |
Wednesday, 10 January 1917 at Fairbank, 59 Crystal Palace Park
Road in Sydenham |
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aged
66 years 98 days |
registered in Bromley
January-March 1917 |
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Probate |
"EASTLAKE-SMITH
Charles of Fairbank Crystal Palace Park-road Sydenham
Kent died 10 January
1917 Probate
London 7 February to
Lizzie Eastlake-Smith widow.
Effects £2251 14s. 6d."
[2019 equivalent: £157,335] |
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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) |
Started his football
career at Rossall School, becoming the school captain from 1867-70, where
he also played cricket and rugby. Once he left school and moved to London,
he was playing with Crystal Palace FC and
Wanderers FC; |
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Club honours |
None |
| Individual honours |
Surrey FA |
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Distinctions |
Father of Olympic medalist Gladys Eastlake-Smith. She won gold in Tennis
in London 1908. |
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Height/Weight |
not known. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & Rossall School archives
(thank you, Henry Shepherd). |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of
nine who became the
34th player
(40)
to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Forward |
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Only match |
No. 5, 4 March
1876,
Scotland 3 England 0, a friendly match at The West of Scotland Cricket
Ground, Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, aged 25 years 152 days. |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Cousin of
Gilbert Smith. |
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Beyond England |
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Served on the FA
Committee 1875-76. He was an Insurance Clerk, according to the 1881
census. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.226. |
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The Numbers |
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parties |
Appearances |
minutes |
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captain |
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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 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
-3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
-1 |
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His only match was a friendly match and at an away venue |
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