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Robert
Topham |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC & Casuals FC
& Corinthians FC
2 appearances,
0 goals
P 2 W 2 D
0 L 0 F 11: A 2
100%
successful
1893-94
captain: none
minutes played: 180
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Timeline |
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Robert Topham
appears to be also known by the name Dick |
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Birth |
Sunday, 3 November 1867 at Elson, Ellesmere,
Shropshire |
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registered in Ellesmere October-December 1867 |
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Baptism |
Sunday, 1 December 1867 at Ellesmere |
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Education |
Attended Oswestry School and
Oxford University. |
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According to the 1871
census, Robert is the fifth of six children, and the oldest of two sons,
the other being Arthur, to Robert and Anne (née Okell). His father is a farmer of 15
acres, employing four men and a boy. Along with five servants, they live
at 9 Tumpley Toll Gate in Elson, Ellesmere. |
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According to the 1881
census, both Robert and Arthur are two of four boarding as pupils with the
Humphrey's family at Lower Brook Street in Oswestry.
(His father
died 18 December 1882) |
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According to the 1891
census, Robert is an assistant master living at the Grammar School in
Brewood, Cannock. |
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According to the 1901
census, Robert is now an assistant schoolmaster living at Belvedere School
in Hove. |
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According to the 1911
census, Rob is now a farmer visiting his elder widowed sister, Marion Owen
and her family at Plas-yn-grove in Eastwick, Ellesmere.
(His mother
died 24 June 1915) |
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Marriage |
to Mabel
Young, in Kingston, late-1917. |
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registered in Kingston October-December 1917 |
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According to the 1921
census, Robert, still a farmer, but now married to Mabel, is now living at
Davington Hall in Faversham with one servant. His older sister, Frances
Anne, is a visitor.
According to Passenger Lists, Robert, a tutor,
arrived in Southampton from New York on 6 October 1925 on bard the Cunard
Liner Aquitania, stated as living at Littlecot in Birchington. |
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His brother,
Arthur, died 18 May
1931. |
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According to the 1939 register, Robert is
retired and still married, living by private means and at his sister's
home at Playsn Grove on Horse Shoe Lane, in Eastwick area of Ellesmere. |
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Death |
Friday, 31 August 1951 at Whitegates
Convalescent Home, Alpha Road in Birchington, Kent. |
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aged
83 years 301 days |
registered in Thanet July-September 1951 |
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Probate |
"TOPHAM
Robert of The Chateu Gallwey-avenue Birchington
Kent died
31 August 1951 at Whitegates Convalescent Home Alpha-road Birchington
Probate (save and except settled land)
Gloucester
29 January to
Robert Charles Dorsett Owen retired captain H.M. army.
Effects £6316 8s. 2d.
[2024 equivalent: £167,681].
Further grant (limited to settled land) 20 May
1952" |
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"TOPHAM
Robert of The Chateu Gallwey-avenue Birchington
Kent died
31 August 1951 at Whitegates Convalescent Home Alpha-road Birchington
Probate (limited to settled land)
Gloucester
20 May to
George Okell solicitor.
Effects £2500
[2024 equivalent: £66,317].
Former grant (save and except settled land)
D.R. Gloucester 29 January 1952." |
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Oxford University Alumni |
Topham,
Robert, born at Ellesmere, Salop, 1867;
IS. Robert,
gen,
KEBLE, matric. 19 Oct., 86, aged 18 (from
Oswestry gr. school); brother of Arthur G. |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Playing Career |
Club(s) |
Although he was a
pupil at Oxford University, he did not earn his Blue. Instead, he started
out with his local club, Oswestry FC before
"going to reside at Brewood" joining Wolverhampton Wanderers FC in
1891. He was also playing for Casuals FC (losing
13-1 at Aston Villa FC in the FA Cup first round, 17 January 1891)
and Chiswick Park FC.
"R.Topham...has promised to assist his
old comrades in their League matches against Aston Villa and Sunderland, at
Wolverhampton, on December 26th and 27th, and also, if possible, in the
English Cup ties." - Scottish
Referee, 9 December 1895 |
.jpg) Corinthians |
1894-98. |
League History
23 appearances, 14 goals |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC 1891-95 23 appearances, fourteen goals
debut: 14
March 1891 Aston Villa FC 6 Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 .
last:
27 December 1895 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC 1
Sunderland AFC 3. |
Club honours |
Welsh FA Cup
runners-up 1884-85;
Football League
fourth place 1890-91 (1ᵃ 2ᵍ);
FA Cup winners
1892-93 (6, 3ᵍ), runners-up 1896-96 (0);
FA Amateur Cup
runners-up 1893-94; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
5' 11", 14st 0lbs [1893] |
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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
seven who became the 199th players
(203) to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Outside-right |
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First match |
No. 47, 25 February 1893, England 6
Ireland 1,
a British Championship match at Wellington Road Football Ground, Perry Barr, Handsworth, aged 25
years 114 days. |
Last match
1 year 15 days |
No. 51, 12 March 1894, Wales 1 England
5, a British Championship match at The Racecourse, Mold Road, Wrexham, aged
26 years 129 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship
1892-93, 1893-94; |
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Team honours |
British Championship winners
1892-93; |
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Individual honours |
The Amateurs (two appearances March 1893-March 1897),
The
Stripes (one appearance March 1894) |
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Distinctions |
Robert was
picked to play for Wales against Scotland in 1885, but he did not accept.
Older brother of Arthur
Topham. |
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Beyond England |
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A master at Brighton College
1892-1905, after which he became a hop grower in Kent. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.248. |
