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Bert
Lipsham |
Sheffield United FC
1 cap, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D
1 L 0 F 0: A 0
50% successful
1902
disciplined: none
captaincies: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Profile |
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Full name |
Herbert Broughall Lipsham |
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Born |
29 April 1878 in Chester, Cheshire
[registered in
Chester, June 1878].
Attended King's School in Chester |
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Census Notes |
According to the 1881
census, Herbert is the eight of nine children (six of them sons) to
Frederick and Eleanor S.. He also has a half-sister. Along with an aunt
and servant, they live at 20 Chichester Street in Chester. His father is
an accountant and auditor. |
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According to the 1891
census, there are three more children in the family, and although the
older ones have left, Herbert is now the sixth of the ten children, now
living at 17 Pepper Street in Chester, accompanied by an aunt. His father
remains an accountant. |
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According to the 1901
census, Herbert is a professional football lodging at 111 Cemetary Road in
Ecclesall Bierlow. He is one of two lodgers living with David and Mary
Coutts and their family. |
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According to the 1911
census, Herbert is a Millwall FC professional footballer, now married to
Alice, with two sons, Herbert William and Leslie, and a mother-in-law.
They live at 19 Pulborough Road in Southfields in Wandsworth.
According to Passenger Lists, Herbert Lipsham was a manager on 14 June
1923, as the Montcalm left Liverpool for Quebec. He and his wife, courtesy
of Canadian Railways, were emigrating to Canada. |
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Married |
to Alice Burkimsher
[registered in Ecclesall Bierlow, March 1903]. |
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Died |
1932 in York, Ontario, Canada, aged
53/54 years x days
[registration not found]. Died as a result of a train crash, having
already lost his hand in a sawmill accident. |
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Height/Weight |
5'
9", 11st.
0lbs [1901]. |
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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) |
Assisted St
Oswald's FC and Chester SA FC before joining Crewe Alexandra FC in 1898.
Then Sheffield United FC in February 1900. Joined Fulham FC in 1907/08.
Before joining Millwall Athletic FC in the 1910 close season, becoming the
player-manager in 1913. |
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Club honours |
FA Cup
runners-up 1900-01, winners 1901-02; |
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Individual honours |
Football League
(two appearances), Southern League
(two appearances). |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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Management Career |
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Club(s) |
Appointed
player-manager of Millwall Athletic FC in 1913. Coached West Norwood FC in
August 1921, becoming manager of Northfleet FC in 1922 until early 1923. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
274th
player to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Outside-left |
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Only match |
No. 74, 3 March 1902, Wales 0
England 0, a British Championship match at
The
Racecourse, Mold Road, Wrexham, aged 23 years
308 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British
Championship 1901-02 |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
None |
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Beyond England |
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He also had a tobacconist shop at 142
Bramall Lane. Lipsham was a member of the first management committee of
the PFA and later moved to Canada in 1923 where he became involved in the
development of football. It was reported in the newspapers that Lipsham
lost his right hand in a sawmill in Toronto. - An
English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming (1990).
Hatton Press, p.158. |
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