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Lindsay Bury Cambridge University AFC & Old Etonians AFC

2 appearances, 0 goals

P 2 W 1 D 0 L 1 F 3: A 4
50% successful

1877-80

captain: none
minutes played:
150

Timeline

  Lindsay Bury BA
Birth Thursday, 9 July 1857 in Moorfield, Withington, Lancashire
  registration not found
"On the 9th inst., at Moorfield, Withington, the wife of Henry Bury, Esq., of a son." - Manchester Courier & Lancashire General Advertiser, Saturday, 11 July 1857.
Baptism 30 July 1857 at St. Paul's Church, Withington, Lancashire
  According to the 1861 census, the three year-old is staying with his grandparents, Henry and Janet Sarel, at Balcombe Rectory in Little Coopers Corner, Balcombe, with three servants.
His mother, Janet Anne (née Sarel), is living at home with four of Lindsay's older siblings at Moor Field House in Lapwing Lane in Withington. The whereabouts of his father, Henry, is unknown, although he is a banker.
  According to the 1871 census, Lindsay is the second of five children with parents, Harry and Janet, living at Queen's Gate Gardens, Kensington, with eleven servants. His father is now a magistrate.
  (His father died 23 September 1876 at Branksome)
Not on the 1881 census'. Probably in United States.
Marriage to Georgiana Reneagle Davis, on Tuesday, 20 April 1886, in New York City, United States of America
  registration in 1886
"BURY―DAVIS.―On the 20th ult., at New York, U.S.A., by the Rev. William S. Rainsford, Lindsay Bury, of Branksome Tower, Bournemouth, to Georgiana Reneagle, daughter of the late Duport Davis, of Washington, U.S.A." - London Morning Post, Tuesday, 11 May 1886/Christchurch Times, Saturday, 15 May 1886.
Children Lindsay and Georgiana Bury had five children together. Henry (b.1883), Ernest (b.1886), Martha (b.25 June 1887 in Branksome), Janet Lindsay (b.9 November 1888 in Manhattan), Eric Lindsay Bury (b.1892 Florida).
  (His daughter, Martha, died in Florida, 8 December 1887, just six months old)
According to the 1891 census, Lindsay, now married to George, and with three children, are living with his widowed mother and his sister, Caroline, at Branksome Gardens in Kinson, Dorset, along with ten servants.
(His mother died 28 February 1899 in Epsom).
Not on the 1901 census'. Probably still in United States
.
  According to the 1911 census, Lindsay is married with two children, American-born Janet and Eric. Lindsay is Justice of the Peace and a Lieutenant in the Army Motor Reserve. They have seven servants, living at Norton Bavant Manor in Warminster.
"ENGAGEMENTS ..A MARRIAGE has been arranged, and will take place early in February, between Ivan Cory, eldest son of Mr. Herbert Cory, Glenside, Leigh Woods, Bristol, and Mrs. Cory, Beeches, Lyndhurst, Hants., and Janet Lindsay Bury, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Bury, Norton Bavant Manor, Warminster, Wilts." - Clifton Society, Thursday, 30 November 1911.
"MARRIAGES ..NORTON BAVANT. FASHIONABLE WEDDING. Cory―Lindsay Bury.
"The old Parish Church of Norton Bavant was the scene of a pretty and fashionable wedding on Tuesday, when the only daughter of Mr. Lindsay Bury, J.P., and Mrs. Lindsay Bury, of the Norton Manor House (where they have been lately residing), was given in marriage to the eldest son of Mr. Herbert Cory (a well-known Cardiff resident) and of Mrs. Cory, of Beeches, Lyndhurst, Hants. (Mr. Ivan Rupert Cory). The ceremony was performed the Rev. Ernest Bury (the bride's cousin), with the assistance of the Rev. G. H. S. Atwood (rector of Bishopstrow). The church was prettily decorated with pot plants and flowers, and an awning was erected from the entrance to the Manor House grounds. Some 250 guests had been invited to the ceremony. The bride, Miss Janet Lindsay Bury, was given away by her father. She was handsomely attired in a dress of white and silver brocade over Brussels lace petticoat, and the train (lent by the bride's mother) was of old needle-point Brussels lace. Her veil, of old Honiton lace, was the gift of the bridegroom's mother." -
Wiltshire Times & Trowbridge Advertiser, Saturday, 10 February 1912.
  (His youngest son, Eric Lindsay, died in Bristol on 9 November 1918)
According to the 1921 census, Lindsay is still married, and with two visitors, Charles Frederick & Gwendoline de Burgh Dickinson, and also four servants, they live at Stanford Wood in Bradfield.
Death Wednesday, 30 October 1935 at Stanford Wood, Reading, Berkshire
aged 78 years 113 days registered in Bradfield October-December 1935
Probate "BURY Lindsay of Stanford Wood Bradfield Berkshire died 30 October 1935 Probate London 11 December to Henry Bury of no occupation and Walter Wilfred Bury solicitor.
Effects £52944 0s. 5d." [2019 equivalent: £3,793,654]
Cambridge University Alumni
Admission as a pensioner at Trinity College: 10 October 1876
son of Henry, of Branksome Tower, Bournemouth, [Hampshire]. born Withington, Lancashire 8[9] July 1857
Eton: Matriculated October 1876, BA 1880, Cricket blue 1877, Athletics blue 1878, 1879, 1880. Football (assoc.) blue' 1877, 1878. Sometime orange planter in Florida, United States. Of Wilcot House, [Wilcot], Wiltshire .
During the Great War [1914-18], served in France with the Red Cross. latterly at Stanford Wood, near Reading, [Berkshire]. J.P. died at Stanford Wood, near Reading, suddenly 30 October 1935, aged 78.
brother of Francis G. (1875), etc. -
(Eton Sch. Lists; The Times 1935:11:01 .)
Source Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &
Playing Career
Club(s) Attended Eton College and Cambridge University, earning his 'Blue' in 1877-78.  Played with the Old Etonians AFC also.
Club honours FA Cup winners 1878-79;
Individual honours None
Distinctions Played first class cricket once for Hampshire CCC, as well as Cambridge University CC.
Height/Weight not known
Source Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].
England Career
Player number One of seven who became the 43rd players (45) to appear for England.
Position(s) Full-back.
First match No. 6, 3 March 1877, England 1 Scotland 3, a friendly match at The Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington, London, aged 19 years 237 days.
Last match No. 8, 18 January 1879, England 2 Wales 1, a friendly match at The Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington, London, aged 21 years 193 days.
Individual honours The South (postponed, January 1879, one appearance, March 1880); The Whites (one appearance, one goal, February 1879)
Distinctions Died sixteen days after Alf Jones
Beyond England
F.A. International Select Committee member 1878.  Later an orange planter in Florida, United States, but had returned to England sometime before the 1911 census which states that he was a Justice of the Peace and a Lieutenant. - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.55./FindMyPast.co.uk


The Numbers
parties Appearances withdrew minutes captain
6 2 two 150 0 none
The minutes here given can only ever be a guideline and cannot therefore be accurate, only an approximation.
P W D L F A GD FTS CCS FAv AAv Pts% W/L
2 1 0 1 3 4 -1 0 0 1.5 2 50 =0
Both of his matches were friendly matches and played at a home venue

Match History
 
 Clubs: Cambridge University A.F.C. & Old Etonians A.F.C. - two full appearances (150 min)  
  F.A. Committee - two full appearances (150 min)x

apps match match details comp res. rundown pos

Age 19
1 6 3 March 1877 - England 1 Scotland 3
The Surrey Cricket Ground, Kennington
Fr HL   fb

one of seven who became the 43rd (45) players to appear for England
one of two players (3) from Cambridge University AFC to become the third to represent England
one of two players (4) who became the fourth Old Etonian to represent England

Age 20
7 2 March 1878 - Scotland 7 England 2, Hampden Park, Glasgow Fr AL withdrew

Age 21 trial  
postponed - The North vs. The South, 4/25 January 1879

2 8 18 January 1879 - England 2 Wales 1
The Surrey Cricket Ground, Kennington
Fr HW match lasted sixty minutes fb

trial  
one appearance - The Whites vs. The Stripes, 26 February 1879

pp 1 March 1879 - England vs. Scotland, The Surrey Cricket Ground, Kennington Fr postponed - frost fb
9 5 April 1879 - England 5 Scotland 4, The Surrey Cricket Ground, Kennington Fr HW reserve

Age 22 trial  
one appearance - The South vs. The North, 6 March 1880

10 13 March 1880 - Scotland 5 England 4, Hampden Park, Glasgow Fr AL withdrew
    


  

 
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