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Percy
Fairclough |
Old
Foresters AFC
1 appearance,
0 goals
P 1 W 0 D 0 L 1 F
2:
A 7
0% successful
1878
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
| photo
courtesy of Forest School |
Percy Fairclough |
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Birth |
Monday, 1 February 1858 in Essex House, Frederick
Place, Bow, Stepney, Middlesex |
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registered in Mile End Old
Town
January-March 1858 Stepney was in Middlesex Registration County
up until 1889 |
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Baptism |
6 April 1858 in St. George in the East
Church, Cannon Street Road, Stepney. Address stated as Essex House in
Stepney. |
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According to the 1861
census, Percy is the youngest of eight children to Thomas M. and
Henrietta (née Martin). They live at Essex House on Frederick Place in Stepney, with
one Governess and four servants. His father is a Master Carman, employing
45 people. |
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According to the 1871
census, Percy is the youngest of the seven children still living with
their parents at Essex House with three servants. His father is still a
Carman and Contractor. |
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According to the 1881
census, Percy is now a clerk, and the seventh and eight children with their parents in a house in Croydon, with three servants. His father
is now a General Carrier. |
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Marriage |
to Monella Bentley,
on 18 May 1886, at St. James' Church, Woolwich |
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registered in Woolwich
April-June 1886 |
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"FAIRCLOUGH―BENTLEY.―On the 18th
inst., at St. James's, ??, by the Rev. J. C. Leeke, M.A., Percy
Fairclough, ?? son of T. M. Fairclough, of Pittarow, Croydon, to, Monella,
daughter of H. W. Bentley, of 23, Kidbrook-park-??"
- London Morning Post, Saturday, 22 May 1886. |
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Children |
Percy
and Monella Fairclough had one son together. Martin Percy (b.4
May 1887) |
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According to the 1891
census, Percy, a stockjobber, and his younger sister Susie, are visitors at
the home of George, a copper tube manufacturer, and Ada Wilkins, living on
Station Road in Knowle.
(His father died on 16 December 1891) |
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According to the 1901
census, Percy, still a stockjobber, is a visitor at the home of Ernest &
Frances Hunter, on Rayleigh High Street. His son Martin is a scholar at
Forest School in West Ham. |
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According to the 1911
census, Percy is still married, but his wife is not on this census. He is however living with their son, Martin Percy, and his own sister Amy, and
two servants, at 29 Croham Road in Croydon. Percy is working in the Stock
Exchange.
(Monella Fairclough died on 28 December 1911 in Brunswick
Place) |
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According to the 1921
census, Percy is now widowed, and is an Assistant Secretary for Fairclough,
Dodd & Jones, Ltd. He is living with his older sister, Amy, at 32
Emperor's Gate in Kensington. |
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According to the 1939 register, Percy
is an Assistant Secretary for a company on the Baltic Exchange. He lives
at 84 Coleherne Court, on the Old Brampton Road in Kensington. |
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Death |
Sunday, 22 June 1947
at Sevenoaks and Holmesdale Hospital, on Hospital Road in Sevenoaks, Kent, in a road accident.
Spent the last four years of his life living in Sevenoaks, at West Garth,
The Rise. |
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aged
89 years 141 days |
registered in Tonbridge
April-June 1947 |
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Obituary |
"PLAYED FOR ENGLAND IN 1878―OLDEST SOCCER
INTERNATIONAL DEAD
"Taken to the Sevenoaks and
Holmesdale Hospital following an accident near Tubs Hill Station, Mr.
Percy Fairclough was placed in the Footballers' Bed, endowed before the
war by Sevenoaks footballers. Unknown to the staff of the hospital, Mr.
Fairclough was probably the oldest international in the country
[he was not, Henry Wace was
still alive].
"Mr. Fairclough, who was 89 years of age, son of the founder of the
firm of T. M. Fairclough, and the last of a family of 11, died in the
hospital on Sunday. When, about four years ago, his home in Knightsbridge
was bombed, the room on the third floor in which he was dressing was
demolished, but he crawled from the wreckage unhurt. It was then that he
came to Sevenoaks, to reside at West Garth, The Rise.
"Born in 1858 at
Essex House, Bow, a one-time hunting box for Queen Elizabeth, Mr.
Fairclough had a distinguished career as a sportsman. In 1878, he
represented England against Scotland, and was on the same side as the Hon.
Alfred Lyttelton. For many years, he was captain of the Old Foresters
Football Club, and led them to victory on the day they won the London Cup.
He was also a member for some years of the Corinthian's football club.
"A past-master of the Girdlers' Company, Mr. Fairclough was for almost 50
years a member of the London Stock Exchange and latterly was engaged in
the firm of Fairclough, Dodd and Jones, Ltd. Football was not his only
sporting activity, though it was his chief interest. He was known as a
first-class hurdler, and for several years he was a member of the Old
Surrey and Burstow Hunt.
"He leaves one son, Mr. Martin Fairclough, now
living at Penshurst, but formerly of Ightham. At an inquest at Sevenoaks
on Wednesday a verdict of 'accidental death' was recorded."
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Sevenoaks Chronicle
and Kentish Advertiser, Friday 27 June 1947. |
Probate,%20Percy.jpeg) |
"FAIRCLOUGH
Percy of West Garth The Rise Sevenoaks
Kent died 22 June
1947 at Sevenoaks and Homesdale Hospital Sevenoaks Kent Probate
London 20 September to
Kathleen Honor Mary Fairclough widow.
Effects £36961 3s. 9d."
[2019 equivalent: £1,457,082] |
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Funeral: date not
known, but he is buried at Kent & Sussex Cemetery and Crematorium
(left), on the Benhall Mill Road in Royal Tunbridge Wells |
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"FAIRCLOUGH.―On July 28, 1947, very
suddenly Martin Percy Fairclough, of 26, St. James'-road, Tunbridge Wells,
late of Penshurst, very dearly loved, husband of Honor, aged 61 years."
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Sevenoaks Chronicle
and Kentish Advertiser, Friday 1 August 1947. |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
Captain of the Old Foresters
FC; |
.jpg) Corinthians |
Apparently on
their books - but there is no evidence. |
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Club honours |
None |
| Individual honours |
Essex FA & London 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
fiftieth players (54)
to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Forward |
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Only match |
No. 7, 2 March
1878, Scotland 7 England 2, a friendly match at
Hampden Park, Hampden Terrace, Glasgow,
aged 20 years 29 days. |
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Individual honours |
The Probables (one appearance, Februray 1878);
The
Whites (one appearance, February 1879); |
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Distinctions |
Despite his age when he died, he was not the last surviving member of the
1878 team, Henry
Wace lasted a further five months.
Died seventeen days after
Gordon
Wright. |
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Beyond England |
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Was a partner in a
stockbroking firm and member of the Stock Exchange for 40 years. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.96. |
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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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P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
7 |
-5 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
7 |
0 |
-1 |
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His only match was a friendly match and at a home venue |
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