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Reginald
Welch |
Wanderers FC & Harrow
Chequers FC
2 caps, 0 goals,
2 goals against
P 2 W 0 D 1 L 1 F 1:
A 2
25% successful
1872-74
disciplined: none
captaincies: none
minutes played: 180 |
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Profile |
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Full name |
Reginald
Courtenay Welch |
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also known as
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Reginald
de Courtney Welch |
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Born |
17 October 1851 in Paddington, London. [registered in
Kensington, December 1851]. |
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Census Notes |
According to the 1851 census,
Henrietta Welch was pregnant with the child that was to become Reginald
Welch. Living with her husband John, and three other children, at Lion's
Lodge 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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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. was 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! |
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According to the 1881
census, Reginald C. was lodging with the Halsey's at 57 Cambridge Street
in Paddington, allowed his parents and some of his sisters could be found at Park
Side, in Greenhill, Wandsworth. He is a Tutor of Law at the Lower
Temple. |
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According to his marriage
certificate, 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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According to the 1891 census,
Reginald De was 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 was now a Principal at the Army College, based at Aldershot.
He was at The Headland Hotel in Jubilee Street, Newquay with his son
Walter on the night of the census.
Bizarrely, Courtenay was 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. |
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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 wife as staying at her mothers, Louise Compton,
elsewhere in Farnham |
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Married |
On 22 December 1888 in Hampshire, as Reginald de Courtney Welch,
to Adeline Charlotte Compton, daughter of a Bombay Civil Servant, at St
Jude's Church, 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. |
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Died |
4 June 1939 as
Reginald C. Welch, aged 87 years
230 days,
[registered in Surrey SW, 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] & FindMyPast.com |
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Club Career |
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Club(s) |
Morice 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. 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, at least 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 |
None. |
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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 to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Full back and
goalkeeper; |
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First match |
No. 1, 30
November 1872,
Scotland 0 England 0, friendly match at The West of Scotland Cricket
Ground, Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, aged 21 years, 164 days. |
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Last match |
No. 3, 7 March 1874,
Scotland 2 England 1, friendly match at The West of Scotland Cricket
Ground, Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, aged 22 years, 260 days. |
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Major tournaments |
None. |
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Team honours |
None. |
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Individual honours |
None. |
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Distinctions |
None. |
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Beyond England |
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Welch was a member of The F.A. committee
between 1873 and 1875, and again from 1879 to 1890. He was also an Army
tutor between 1883 and 1895, going on to become principal of the Army
College at Farnham, Surrey in 1895.
He was also chairman of the Throat Hospital in Golden Square 1883-95;-
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.264./Harrow School Register. |
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Reginald Welch - Career Statistics |
| Squads |
Apps |
Mins. |
Goals |
Goals
Av.min |
Goals
Against |
GA Av.
min |
Clean
Sheets |
Cln
Sht Av. |
Capt. |
Disc. |
| 2 |
2
(1 as gk) |
180
(90 as gk) |
0 |
0
min |
2 |
45 min |
0 |
0% |
None |
None |
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Due to the fact that
many matches rarely stuck to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time
for injuries, errors and substitutions. The minutes here
given can only ever be a guideline and cannot therefore be accurate, only
an approximation. |
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Reginald
Welch - Match Record - All Matches - By Type of Match |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts
% |
W/L |
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Away - Friendly |
2 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
-1 |
1 |
1 |
0.50 |
1.00 |
25.0 |
-1 |
| All |
2 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
-1 |
1 |
1 |
0.50 |
1.00 |
25.0 |
-1 |
Notes
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CG/DR
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