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Harry
Chippendale |
Blackburn Rovers FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D 1 L 0 F 2:
A 2
50% successful
1894
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Harry Chippendale |
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Birth |
Sunday, 2 October 1870 in
Blackburn, Lancashire |
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registered as Harry in Blackburn October-December 1870. |
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According to the 1871 census,
Harry is the youngest of three children to Henry and Ann. They live at 20
Bottom Gate in Blackburn. His father works at the cotton mill. |
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According to the 1881 census,
and stated as being a Henry, he now has a younger brother, and they live at 41 Whalley Road in Blackburn. His father is an overlooker. |
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According to the 1891 census,
Harry is one of three sons still with their parents at 35 Whalley New
Road, Blackburn. Harry is a Cotton Winding Master. |
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"At the revision
of county voters lists at Blackburn, yesterday, Harry Chippendale, the
Blackburn Rovers international right wing player, claimed an ownership
vote. He was objected to by the Liberals, the suggestion being that the
property conveyance on which claimant relied for qualification was not
'bona fide.' The revising barrister, however, was satisfied that
Chippendale earned money to purchase the house and allowed the vote,,
together with a joint claim made by his brother."
- Sporting Chronicle/Lancashire Evening Post, Tuesday, 28
September 1897. |
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According to the 1900
Lancashire Electoral Register, Harry is confirmed as a resident at 35
Whalley New Road.
According to the 1901 census,
Harry is the only child living with his parents, still at 35 Whalley New
Road. Both he and his father are weaving managers at the mill. |
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According to the 1911 census,
Harry is now living with his widowed mother at 194 Whalley New Road. He is
still a weaving manager.
The Electoral Register states he has been
at his new address since at least 1910. |
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Marriage |
to Amy Kemp, in
Blackburn, summer 1912. |
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registered as Harry in Blackburn April-June 1912. |
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According to the 1921 census,
Harry is now married to Amy, and living at 126 St. James' Road in
Blackburn. He is
still a weaving manager (for WH Hornby). |
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"Mr.
Harry
Chippendale, the old Blackburn
Rovers and International forward, who was manager of Sir William H.
Hornby's Brookhouse Mill, Blackburn, where he was first employed 45 years
ago, has retired. The workpeople have presented him with a grandfather
clock and an electric lamp." - Westminster Gazette,
Monday, 17 January 1927/Daily Mirror, Tuesday, 18 January 1927. |
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(His wife, Amy, died in the 1935 summer)
According to the 1939 register, Harry is a
widowed and retired cotton weaver manager, living at 18 Ramsgreave Road in
Blackburn with a housekeeper.
His address is also confirmed by the
1939 Lancasire Electoral Register |
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Death |
Monday, 29 September 1952
at 18 Ramsgreave Road in Ramsgreave, Lancashire |
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aged
81 years 361 days |
registered as Harry in Darwen July-September 1952. |
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Probate |
"CHIPPENDALE
Harry of 18 Ramsgreave-road Ramsgreave near
Blackburn
died 29
September 1952 Probate
London
27 November to Harry Leaver yarn merchant and Harold Holden Marsden
solicitor.
Effects £8802 17s. 5d."
[2023 equivalent: £209,871]. |
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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) |
Started his
career with Nelson FC, joining Accrington FC for the 1889-90 season, but
did not feature for them in any first class matches. He joined Blackburn
Rovers FC from 1891 until 1897. |
League History
134 appearances,
50 goals |
Blackburn Rovers FC 1891-97 134 appearances,
fifty goals.
debut: 26 September 1891 Blackburn Rovers FC 3 Burnley FC
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last: 27 March 1897 Bury FC 3 Blackburn Rovers FC 0. |
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Club honours |
Football League
Division One fourth place 1893-94 (27ᵃ
14ᵍ);
FA Cup semi-finalist 1892-93 (1ᵃ), 1893-94 (5ᵃ
2ᵍ); |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Height/Weight |
not known |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & ENFA. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of
three who became the 211th
players (213) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Outside-right |
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Only match |
No. 50, 3 March 1894, Ireland 2 England
2, a British Championship match at Cliftonville Gardens, Cliftonville, Belfast, aged
23 years
152 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1893-94; |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
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Served as a Football League linesman
until November 1908. He had been employed at Sir William H. Hornby's
Brookhouse Mill in Blackburn, later rising to the rank of manager with the
firm. He retired in January 1927. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.64. |
