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Cecil
Wingfield-Stratford |
Royal
Engineers FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D 0 L 1 F
1:
A
3
0% successful
1877
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Brigadier-General Cecil Vernon Wingfield-Stratford CBE CMG CB |
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Birth |
Friday, 7 October 1853 in Addington Place,
Addington, near West Malling, Kent |
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registered in Malling
October-December 1853 |
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"On
the 7th inst., at Addington-place, near Maidstone, Mrs. W. Stratford, of a
son." - South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday, 18 October 1853. |
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Baptism |
23 March 1857 at All Souls Church in
Marylebone |
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According to the 1861
census, Cecil is the fourth of seven children to John and Jane Elizabeth
(née Guise).
His father is a Justice of the Peace. They all live at Addington Place in
Addington [left], with eighteen servants. |
According to the 1871
census, Cecil is a pupil studying at a school, on South Lancaster Road, in
the Norwood Park area of Croydon.
Cecil was commissioned into the
Royal Engineers in 1873 |
According to the 1881
census, Cecil is at Fartherwell Hall in Ryarsh in Malling. He is a
lieutenant in the Royal Engineers and he is at the home of his future
bride, the Bligh's. They have fourteen servants.
(His father died
on 8 May 1881) |
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"ENGAGEMENTS |
...A
marriage is arranged to take place shortly between Cecil Vernon Wingfield-Stratford, Lieutenant R.E. (son of the late John
Wingfield-Stratford, Esq., of Addington Park), and Rosalind Isabel,
daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Edward and Lady Isabel Bligh." -
Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser/The Liverpool Mercury, Friday,
29 July 1881. |
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Marriage |
to Rosalind
Isobel Bligh, on 13 October 1881, at Birling Church, West Malling |
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registered in Malling
October-December 1881 |
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"BIRLING―Oct.
13, at Birling Church, Cecil Vernon Wingfield-Stratford, Lieut. R.E.,
third son of the late J. Wingfield-Stratford, Esq., of Addington Park, to
Rosalind Isabel, only daughter of the Hon. and Rev. E. V. and Lady Bligh."
- Whitstable Times and Herne Bay
Herald, Saturday, 22 October 1881. |
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Children |
Cecil
and Rosalind Wingfield-Stratford had three children together. Esmé Cecil
(b.20 September 1882), Geoffrey Edward
(b.18 January 1887) and Rosalind Frances Cecily
(b.28 August 1893) |
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According to the 1891 census,
Cecil is a captain in the Royal Engineers and is married to Rosalind and
they have two children. They live at The Cracknells, Norton Green
in Freshwater, Esme and Geoffrey, on the Isle of Wight. |
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(His mother died 20 February 1897)
According to the 1901
census, Lieutenant Colonel Cecil is living at Stowford House in Harford,
Devon, with his wife and two eldest children and eight servants. |
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According to the 1911 census,
Colonel Cecil and his wife are visiting the home of Lord Llewelyn Mostyn,
who live at Mostyn Hall, in Mostyn, Flintshire. |
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"General
Wingfield-Stratford joined the Royal Engineers as Lieutenant on April 29,
1873, and obtained his captaincy on Jan. 8, 1885. In the meantime, he had
been appointed Adjutant to the Submarine Mining Battalion, which position
he occupied from 1884 to 1889. He secured his other steps as
follows:―Major, April 1, 1893; Lieutenant-Colonel, Aug. 12, 1900;
Brevet-Colonel, Feb. 10, 1904; Substantive-Colonel, Jan. 1, 1907; On the
latter date he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Irish Command at
Dublin, and given the temporary rank of Brigadier-General. As such he
served on the staff of the Royal Hibernian Military School in Phœnix
Park, and he held these appointments until Oct. 7, 1915, when he took his
retired pay." -
Staffordshire Advertiser,
Saturday, 28 November 1914. |
"THE COMMAND OF THE NORTH MIDLAND TERRITORIAL
ENGINEERS.
"By the decision of a Medical Board,
Lieut.-Col. W. E. Harrison, of Wychnor Park, Barton-on-Trent, has been
deprived of the privilege and distinction of taking on active service the
fine corps of Royal Engineers for the North Midland Territorial Division,
which by his energy and generosity he had done so much to raise and to
bring to its present state of efficiency. To succeed him in the command of
the Service unit, an old officer of the Regular Force of Engineers has
been appointed in the person of Brig.-Gen. Cecil Vernon Wingfield
Stratford. The new commander was born in 1853, the year which Russia
declared war on Turkey, and which led to the declaration of war between
England and Russia the following year. On Oct. 7 last he celebrated his
61st birthday, but he is still hale and active, and welcomes heartily his
re-call to the Colours at this critical juncture." -
Staffordshire
Advertiser, Saturday, 28
November 1914.
"ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE.
"The King has been graciously pleased to give
directions for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michal and Saint George, for services
rendered in connection with military operations in the field, to be dated
the 1st January 1916:― To be Additional Members of the Third Class, or
Companions of the said Most Distinguished Order: Colonel (Honorary
Brigadier-General) Cecil Vernon Wingfield-Stratford." -
Sheffield Daily Telegraph,
Friday, 14 January 1916, |
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"Lady
Isabel Mary Frances Bligh, of Fartherwell Hall, West Malling, who died on
December 18th last, aged 84, widow of the Rev. the Hon. Edward Vesey
Bligh, and last surviving sister of the late Marquess of Abergavenny, has
left unsettled estate of the value of £141,253, the net personalty being
£117,487. She devised the Fatherwell Estate to her daughter, Rosalind
Isabel Wingfield-Stratford, for life, with remainder to her husband,
Brigadier-General Cecil Vernon Wingfield-Stratford, a great grandson of the
third Lord Powerscourt, and their children." - Kent & Sussex Courier,
Friday, 10 March 1916.
[2018 equivalent
= £11,680,536, personalty £9,715,271]. |
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According to the 1921 census,
Cecil, now a farmer (ex-soldier) and his wife are now living at
Fartherwell Hall in West Malling with six servants. |
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Death |
Sunday, 5
February 1939 in Fartherwell Hall, West Malling, London |
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aged
85 years 121 days |
registered in Malling
January-March 1939 |
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Obituary |
"GENERAL STRATFORD
DEAD. WAS IRELAND CHIEF ENGINEER
"The death was
announced on Monday at Fatherwell, West Malling, Kent, of
Brigadier-General Cecicil Vernon Wingfield-Stratford in his 86th year.
Educated at the R.M.A., Woolwich. Brigadier Wingfield-Stratford served in the Royal Engineers
from 1873 to 1910,
when he retired with the hon. rank of Brigadier-General. He was
chief engineer in Ireland from 1906-10, and served during the Great War,
from 1914-18, when he was mentioned in dispatches' four times and received
the C.M.G. and C.B." -
Ballymena Weekly Telegraph,
Saturday,
11 February 1929,. |
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Probate |
"STRATFORD
Cecil Wingfield Vernon of Fartherwell West Malling
London died 5 February
1939 Probate
London 4 July to
Rosalind Isabel Wingfield Stratford widow.
Effects £2764 9s. 5d."
[2019 equivalent: £182,025] |
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Rosalind Isabel Wingfield-Stratford MBE died on 13 March 1953 at
Fatherwell |
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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) |
Attended the
Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, London, before joining the Royal
Engineers in 1873; |
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Club honours |
FA Cup
winners 1874-75; |
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Individual honours |
Kent FA |
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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
seven who became the
43rd players
(49) to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Outside-left |
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Only match |
No. 6, 3 March 1877, England 1 Scotland 3,
a friendly match at The Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington, London, aged
23 years
147 days. |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
The last
member of the 1877 team to die. |
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Beyond England |
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Awarded the CMG 1916 and CB 1918. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.273. |
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The Numbers |
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parties |
Appearances |
minutes |
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captain |
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1 |
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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L |
F |
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FTS
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AAv |
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3 |
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0 |
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1 |
3 |
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-1 |
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His only match was a friendly match and at a home venue |
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