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Gerard Dewhurst |
Liverpool Ramblers
FC & Corinthians FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D 1 L 0 F 1:
A 1
50% successful
1895
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Profile |
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Full name |
Gerard Powys Dewhurst BA |
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name notes |
His forename is Gerard, as stated in his
registration and census returns... not Gerald! |
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Born |
14 February 1872 in
Lancaster Gate, Middlesex [registered in
St George Hanover Square, March 1872].
notes: Lancaster Gate was part of the
Middlesex County Registration until 1889. |
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Baptised |
30 June 1872 at St.
Peter's Church, Oughtrington |
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Census Notes |
According to the 1881 census,
Gerard Powys is the second of five children to George Bakewell and Frances
Ada Lucy (née Mann). They live with twelve servants at Oughtrington Hall in
Lymm, Altrincham. His father is a merchant in the cotton trade, and a J.P. |
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According to the 1891 census,
Gerard is an undergraduate at Trinity College in Cambridge.
According to Manchester Rate Books, G & R Dewhurst had a warehouse at
Great Marlborough Street in Manchester from 1894 until 1897.
According
to Cheshire Electoral Rolls, Gerard is living at Oughtrington Park in Lymm
from 1894 until at least 1900. |
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According to the 1901 census,
Gerard P. is married to Mary. He is a cotton merchant and they live at
Oughtrington Hall with nine servants. |
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According to the 1911 census,
Gerard Powys and Mary have two sons, John Powys and Hugh Littleton. He is
still a cotton merchant and they have ten servants at Oughtrington Hall.
According to a 1921 GWR
will, Gerard Powys was an executor for Alfred Crewdson who had died in
October 1921. Gaerard was at 7 St Peters Square in Manchester. |
According to the 1939 register, Gerard P. and
Mary are still married living at Bodidris in Ruthin, with at least one of
their daughters. He is a shipping merchant and a Denbighshire Special
Constabulary.
According to passenger lists in 1951, Gerard Powys
left for Colombo in Ceylon along with his wife Mary, on the P&O ship
Himalaya, ultimately bound for Sydney, Australia. Their address is stated
as Bodidris in Llandegla, Wales. |
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Married |
to Mary Brougham
[registered in Kendal, Westmoreland, June 1898]. |
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Died |
29 March 1956, aged
84 years 44 days
[registered in Ruthin, Denbighshire, March 1956]. |
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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) |
Attended Repton School
from April 1883 and made the XI in 1889-90. Went on to attend Trinity
College at Cambridge
University, earning his blue in 1892-94. Played a single
game for Liverpool FC in March 1894. Scored eighteen times in 32
appearances for the Corinthians FC between 1892-95. Also turned out
for the Liverpool Ramblers FC outfit. |
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Club honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Also played
cricket for Repton School in 1890.
Gerard's younger brother is Cyril, who went on who became the a Major in the
15th Battalion in the West Yorkshire Regiment. |
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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 five who
became the 222nd
player (226) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Inside-right |
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Only match |
No. 54, 18 March 1895,
England 1
Wales
1,
a
British Championship match at The Recreation Ground, Queen's Club, West Kensington, London, aged
23 years
32 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British
Championship
1894-95; |
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Team honours |
British
Championship winners
1894-95; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Died four days
after James Iremonger and nineteen days after Arthur Knight |
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Beyond England |
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Awarded a Bachelor of Arts in 1894. He was a
Manchester-based cotton
merchant, G & R Dewhurst Co Ltd. In the 1930's, he was living at Llandegla, near Wrexham. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.87. |
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