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Watty
Corbett |
Birmingham
FC
3 appearances, 0 goals
P 3 W 3 D 0 L 0 F 22:
A 1
100% successful
1908
captain: none
minutes played: 270 |
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Timeline |
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Walter Samuel Corbett |
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Birth |
Friday, 26 November 1880 in
Park Street, Wellington, Shropshire |
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registered in Wellington Salop Union January-March 1881 |
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Education |
Attended King Edward Grammar
School, Birmingham |
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Baptism |
Tuesday, 13 December 1881 at
All Saint's Church, Wellington |
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According to the 1881 census,
Walter Saml. is the youngest of three children to Walter Richard and Elizabeth
Mary
(née Whittall) and live at Park Street in Wellington. His father is a printer master. |
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According to the 1891 census,
Walter S. is the middle child of five, now living at 32 Hall Road in
Handsworth, West Bromwich. His father is now a commercial traveller. |
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According to the 1901 census,
Walter S. is now a merchant's clerk, still the middle of five with their
parents, now at 53 Stafford Road in Handsworth. His father is now a
printer again. |
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According to the 1911 census,
Walter was a visitor at the Beasley household at 154 Newhampton Road West
in Wolverhampton. Walter is a commercial clerk. |
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Marriage |
to Clara Harris, on Saturday, 26 October 1912 in Wolverhampton |
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registered in Wolverhampton October-December 1912 |
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Children |
Watty and Clara Corbett have one son together. Leslie John
(b.1913) |
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According to the 1921 census,
Walter Samuel, a wages clerk for the Birmingham Tramway Corporation, is
now married to Clara, and they have one son, Leslie John, and one servant,
Dorie Gray, living at 7 Wilton Road in Handsworth.
Midland
Electoral Registers confirm the Corbett's at 7 Wilton Road in 1922 until
at his death |
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His mother died in 1933 and his father died on 14
May 1935 in Winson Green Mental Hospital.
According to the 1939 register, Walter S., a wages
clerk, is married to Clara, and are living at 7 Wilton Road in Birmingham. |
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Death |
Wednesday, 23 November
1960 at 7 Wilton Road in Handsworth, Birmingham,
Warwickshire |
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aged
79 years 362 days
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registered in Birmingham October-December 1960 |
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Obituary |
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His wife,
Clara, died in Highcroft Hospital in 1968 |
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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) |
Played his junior football playing for Astbury Richmond FC and
Bournbrook FC, before joining Aston Villa FC. Joined Birmingham FC on 21 June 1907,
and despite making a solitary appearance for Queen's Park Rangers FC in
September of that year, and assisting Wellington Town FC from April 1909,
he remained with the Birmingham club until 1911. |
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Club honours |
None |
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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]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
334th
player to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Left-back |
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First match |
No. 95, 6 June 1908, Austria 1
England 6, an end-of-season Continental tour match at
Cricketer
Platz,
Wien, aged
27 years
193 days. |
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Last match |
No. 98, 13 June 1908,
Bohemia 0 England 8, an end-of-season Continental tour match at
Stadión Letná, Milady Horákové, Praha, aged
27 years 200 days. |
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Major tournaments |
None |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
England Amateur
(eighteen appearances); Olympic Gold London 1908 |
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Distinctions |
Corbett was the first
player, with multiple appearances, to play against only foreign
opposition.
Died thirteen days after
Joe Bache |
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Beyond England |
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No additional information. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.74/75. |
