Edward Hagarty Parry

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Edward Hagarty Parry
Personal information
Full name Edward Hagarty Parry[1]
Date of birth (1855-04-24)24 April 1855
Place of birth Toronto, British Canada
Date of death 19 July 1931(1931-07-19) (aged 76)
Place of death West Bridgford, England
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Oxford University
Old Carthusians
Swifts
Remnants
0000–1883 Wanderers
Stoke Poges FC
Windsor
International career
1879–1882 England 3 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Edward Hagarty Parry (24 April 1855 – 19 July 1931[2]) was a footballer. Born in Canada, he played for the England national team.

Early life[edit]

Born in Toronto, Ontario, where his father served as a clergyman,[3] Parry attended Charterhouse School from 1868 to 1874, and Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated as B.A. in 1878 and M.A. in 1885.[3]

Football career[edit]

Parry played three times for England, against Wales in 1879 and 1882 and Scotland in 1882.[3] He scored once.

He was captain (and goal-scorer) of the Old Carthusians team which won the 1881 FA Cup Final defeating Old Etonians 3–0. He was the first overseas-born captain of an FA Cup winning team,[4] and the last until Irishman Johnny Carey with Manchester United in 1948 (and not Eric Cantona 48 years later).

He was also a member of the Wanderers club [5] as well as for Swifts of Slough, Remnants, Windsor, and Stoke Poges FC clubs.[3]

Later life[edit]

Parry became a schoolmaster at Felsted School in 1879 before settling at Stoke House private school, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire in 1881, becoming its head master in 1892 and retiring in 1918. He was national chairman of the Private Schools Association in 1907 and sat on its council for many years. After his retirement, he helped to run the Officers' Family Fund for sons of officers who died in the recent First World War.[3]

Parry became blind in his later years and died at his last home in West Bridgford, Nottingham on 19 July 1931, aged seventy-six. He was buried at the parish church at Plumtree, Nottinghamshire.[3]

Honours[edit]

Oxford University

Old Carthusians

International goals[edit]

Scores and results list England's goal tally first.
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 13 March 1882 Racecourse Ground, Wrexham  Wales 2–0 3–5 Friendly

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Edward Parry". England Football Online. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
  2. ^ Betts, Graham (2006). England: Player by player. Green Umbrella Publishing. p. 187. ISBN 1-905009-63-1.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Warsop, Keith (2004). The Early F.A. Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs. Tony Brown, Soccer Data. pp. 113–114. ISBN 1-899468-78-1.
  4. ^ Warsop, Keith (2004). The Early F.A. Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs. Tony Brown, Soccer Data. p. 51. ISBN 1-899468-78-1.
  5. ^ Cavallini, Rob (2005). The Wanderers F.C. –"Five times F.A. Cup winners". Dog N Duck Publications. p. 110. ISBN 0-9550496-0-1.

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