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RC
Welch |
Wanderers FC & Harrow
Chequers FC
2 appearances, 0 goals
2 goals against
P 2 W 0 D 1 L 1 F 1:
A 2
25% successful
1872-74
captain: none
minutes played: 180 |
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Timeline |
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Reginald
Courtenay Welch |
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also known as
Reginald
de Courtney Welch |
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Birth |
Friday, 17 October 1851 in Lion's Lodge, St. John's Place,
Kew Road, Richmond, Middlesex |
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registered in Kensington September-December 1851 Paddington was in Middlesex County Registration up until 1889. |
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According to the 1851 census,
Henrietta Anne Hele Fowell Welch (née Sprye) is pregnant with the child that
is to become Reginald
Welch. Living with her husband John, and three other children, at Lion's
Lodge
[left] in St John's Place in the Kew Road in Richmond. His father is a
special pleader. They also have four servants. |
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Baptism: 16 August 1856 in
Pinner, along with his brothers Frances Bernard and
sister Amy Henrietta. Their father, Reginald, is stated as being a Special
Pleader. |
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According to the 1861 census,
Reginald C., a scholar, is now the eldest of six children who live
at Lancaster Lodge on Richmond Road in Twickenham. With six servants. |
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According to the 1871 census,
Reginald C. is still a scholar, living at Lancaster House, in College
Road, Harrow. He lives with his parents, and six of his siblings,
one of them with their wife and child, as well as a further eight
servants...and a nurse! |
According to the 1881
census, Reginald C. is lodging with the Halsey's at 57 Cambridge Street
in Paddington, and his parents and some of his sisters can be found at Park
Side, in Greenhill, Wandsworth. He is a Tutor of Law at the Lower
Temple.
(His mother died in Cannes, 4 February 1888. His father
died three months later in Kensington, 16 May 1888) |
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"A marriage has
been arranged, and will shortly take place, between Adeline Charlotte
(Memie), second daughter of the late Mr. Abingdon Compton, Bombay Civil
Service, and Mr. Reginald Courtenay Welch, of 6, Southwick-place,
Hyde-park-square." - The Morning Post, Wednesday, 5
December 1888
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Marriage
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to Adeline
Charlotte Compton, on Saturday, 22 December 1888, at St
Jude's Church [left], Kent Road, Portsea, Hampshire.
The GRO Office in England records his name as De Courtney. The Register
Office in Portsmouth records it as De Courteney whereas the original
parish register correctly records it as De Courtenay which is how he
signed his name. Reginald's address was stated as 6 Southwick Place,
Hyde Park. He was the next-door neighbour of Frederick Brunning Maddison,
who lived at number four. |
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"WELCH—COMPTON.―On
the 22d inst., at St. Jude's, Southsea, by the Rev. J. S. Blake, M.A.,
Vicar, Reginald Courtenay Welch, of 6, Southwick-place, Hyde-park, son of
the late John Welch, Esq., of the Inner Temple, to Adeline (Memie),
younger daughter of the late Abingdon Compton, Esq., Bombay Civil
Service." - The Morning Post, Monday, 31 December 1888 |
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Children |
RC and Adeline de Welch had one son together. Walter George Frederick
(b.7 March 1890) |
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According to the 1891 census,
Reginald De is married now to his wife, Adeline. They have one child,
Walter, and they all live at 6 Southwick Place in Paddington with three
servants. Reginald is an Army Tutor. |
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According to the 1901 census,
Reg Courtney is now a Principal at the Army College, based at Aldershot. He
is at The Headland Hotel in Jubilee Street, Newquay with his son
Walter on the night of the census.
Bizarrely, Courtenay is also at home, according to the census. With his
wife and only son, Walter, at Cranmore House on Cranmore Lane, Aldershot. Still an Army Tutor. |
Divorce
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Petition for 'Judicial
Separation' was filed on 7 January 1911 |
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According to the 1911 census,
Reginald Courtenay is still the Principal at the Army College, at Heath
End in Farnham. His now separated wife is staying at her mothers, Louise Compton,
elsewhere in Farnham. |
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Cause Set Down was filed on 24 July 1911; Final
Decree "Dismissed on summons" 17
October 1911 |
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registered in the Civil Divorce Records 1858-1918 |
(His only son, Walter George, died in Ypres on 30
October 1914)
According to the 1921 census,
Reginald Courtenay is again still the Principal at the Army College, still
at Heath
End in Farnham. |
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Death |
Sunday, 4 June 1939 at the Army College in Heath End, Farnham, Surrey.
Buried in Green Lane Cemetery in Farnham (above left), date unknown |
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aged 87 years 230 days |
registered as Reginald C. Welch in Surrey SW April-June 1939 |
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Obituary |
"Death of Mr.
Reginald Courtenay Welch.
The last survivor of the Wanderers
football team which played in the first F.A. Cup final died at Heath End,
near Aldershot yesterday. He was Mr. Reginald Courtenay Welch, aged 87,
and he had been principal of the Army College at Heath End for many years.
Before the War, Sir John French, then General Officer commanding at
Aldershot, accepted an offer by Mr. Courtenay Welch to organise in the
grounds of Government House, Aldershot, a torchlight tattoo for military
charities. The Aldershot tattoo has grown from this."
-
The Evening
Dispatch, Monday, 5 June
1939. |
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Probate |
"WELCH
Reginald Courtenay of the Army College Heath End Farnham
Surrey died 4 June
1939 Probate London
13 September to Westminster Bank Limited.
Effects £19478 10s."
[2019 equivalent: £1,282,733] |
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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) |
Welch was
educated at Harrow School, although he does not appear on the register to
have played any form of football. He did however go on to play for Old Harrovians FC before joining Harrow Chequers
FC. As an amateur he also played
for Wanderers FC, with whom he played as goalkeeper in the final of the
first ever FA Cup tournament. Also appeared for Remnants FC.
Apparently also played for Bury St. Edmunds FC in 1877, according
to The History of Bury Town FC. |
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Club honours |
FA Cup winners
1871-72, 1872-73; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
"He
claimed to be the first person in England to ride a bicycle"
- The Yorkshire Post, Monday, 5 June 1939. |
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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
eleven who became the
first players
(3) to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Half-back and
goalkeeper;
Fourth
goalkeeper to appear. |
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First match |
No. 1, 30
November 1872,
Scotland 0 England 0, a friendly match at The West of Scotland Cricket
Ground, Hamilton Crescent, Partick, Glasgow, aged 21 years 44 days. |
Last match
1 year 97 days |
No. 3, 7 March 1874,
Scotland 2 England 1, a friendly match at The West of Scotland Cricket
Ground, Hamilton Crescent, Partick, Glasgow, aged 22 years 141 days. |
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Distinctions |
Welch
was the last surviving member of the original 1872 team, and the 1874
team, fourteen months after Robert Ogilvie.
Died seventeen days after
Charley Dobson.
At the time of his death, Welch became the oldest
ex-England player to die, taking two years off the record set by Charlie
Clegg in 1937. |
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Beyond England |
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Welch was a member of The F.A. International Select Committee
between 1873 and 1875, and again from 1879 to 1890. He was also an Army
tutor between 1883 and 1895, going on who became the principal of the Army
College at Farnham, Surrey in 1895.
He was also chairman of the Throat Hospital in Golden Square 1883-95.
Originator of The Aldershot Tattoo. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.264./Harrow School Register. |
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The Numbers |
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parties |
Appearances |
minutes |
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Goals
Against |
GA ave.min |
clean sheets |
captain |
| 2 |
2
(1 as gk) |
180
(90 as gk) |
0 |
2 |
45 min |
none |
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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2 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
-1 |
1 |
1 |
0.5 |
1 |
25 |
-1 |
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Both of his matches were friendly matches and at an away venue |
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