Gerard Dewhurst
Personal information
Full name Gerard Powys Dewhurst[1]
Date of birth (1872-02-14)14 February 1872
Place of birth London, England
Date of death 29 March 1956(1956-03-29) (aged 84)
Place of death Ruthin, Wales
Position(s) Inside forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Liverpool Ramblers
1892–1895 Corinthian
1894 Liverpool 1 (0)
International career
1895 England 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gerard Powys Dewhurst J.P. (14 February 1872 – 29 March 1956;[2] sometimes referred to as Gerald Powys Dewhurst) was an English cotton merchant and banker. He was also an amateur footballer, and earned one international cap for England in 1895, playing as an inside forward.

Early and personal life

Born in London, he was the son of George Bakewell Dewhurst and Frances Ada Dewhurst (née Mann). He grew up at Oughtrington Hall in Lymm, Cheshire,[2] and was educated at Repton School, where he was a member of the school football XI in 1889 and 1890,[3] and Trinity College, Cambridge.[4][5] While at Cambridge, he earned a "blue" in 1892, 1893 and 1894.[3]

In 1897 he married Mary Brougham, by whom he had two sons.[6]

Football career

Dewhurst played for Liverpool Ramblers and the Corinthians as an amateur, and also played one game for Liverpool against Crewe Alexandra on 24 March 1894.[1] He made 32 appearances for the Corinthians between 1892 and 1895, scoring 18 goals.[7]

He earned one cap for England in a British Home Championship against Wales on 18 March 1895, whilst registered as a Liverpool Ramblers player.[8] All eleven England players were members of the Corinthian club[9] and were expected to produce an easy victory;[10] in the event, Wales proved stronger than expected and the match ended in a 1–1 draw with Rupert Sandilands equalizing shortly after Wales took the lead through Billy Lewis.[11]

Business career

Dewhurst joined his family cotton trading firm, Geo. & R. Dewhurst Ltd. of Manchester, becoming Chairman and Managing Director.[12] He was also Chairman of the Vulcan Insurance Company of Manchester, a director of the London Assurance Corporation and a member of the Manchester Royal Exchange.[12] He later worked as a banker with Williams Deacon's Bank, becoming Chairman, and as a director of The Royal Bank of Scotland.[6][12]

He served as Justice of the Peace for Denbighshire.[12]

The Great Central Railway named one of its GCR Class 11F "Improved Director" steam locomotives after him, No. 507 (later L.N.E.R. No. 5507 and B.R. No. 62661).[13][14]

References

  1. 1 2 "Player profile". lfchistory.net. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
  2. 1 2 "England players: Gerard Dewhurst". englandfootballonline. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  3. 1 2 Betts, Graham (2006). England: Player by player. Green Umbrella Publishing. p. 88. ISBN 1-9050-0963-1.
  4. ↑ "Gerald Dewhurst". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  5. ↑ "Repton School register : supplement to 1910 edition". Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  6. 1 2 "Obituary". The Times. 31 March 1956. p. 10.
  7. ↑ Cavallini, Rob (2007). Play Up Corinth: A History of the Corinthian Football Club. Tempus Publishing. p. 275. ISBN 978-0-7524-4479-6.
  8. ↑ "Gerald Powys Dewhurst". www.englandstats.com. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  9. ↑ Play Up Corinth – A History of the Corinthian Football Club. p. 44.
  10. ↑ Gibbons, Philip (2001). Association Football in Victorian England – A History of the Game from 1863 to 1900. Upfront Publishing. pp. 290–291. ISBN 1-8442-6035-6.
  11. ↑ "England 1 - 1 Wales". www.englandstats.com. 18 March 1895. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  12. 1 2 3 4 "Dewhurst, Capt. Gerard Powys". Who's Who. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  13. ↑ "The Robinson Class D11 (GCR Class 11F) 'Improved Directors' 4-4-0 Locomotives". LNER locos. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  14. ↑ "Gerard Powys Dewhurst - GCR class 11F 4-4-0 507 - LNER class D11 - 5507 - Guide Bridge 8 3 1924 WHW". Flickr. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
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