Albert Rawson Robertshaw (birth registered October→December 1861 – 17 November 1920) was an English

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footballer who played in the 1880s. He played at representative level for

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, and

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, and at club level for

Bradford FC Bradford (Park Avenue) Association Football Club is an association football club based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The team compete in , at the sixth tier of the English football league system. The name derived from their former hom ...

, as a three-quarter, e.g.

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, or

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. Prior to Tuesday 27 August 1895, Bradford FC was a

club, it then became a rugby league club, and since 1907 it has been the

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(soccer) club

Bradford Park Avenue Bradford (Park Avenue) Association Football Club is an association football club based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The team compete in , at the sixth tier of the English football league system. The name derived from their former hom ...

Background

Robertshaw's birth was registered in

Bradford Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...

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, and he died aged 58 in

Playing career

Robertshaw won caps for

while at Bradford FC in

1886 Events January–March * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange ...

against Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, and in

1887 Events January–March * January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. * January 20 ** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Har ...

against Wales, and Scotland.

Personal life

Robertshaw married in 1901 in

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References

External links

Search for "Robertshaw" at rugbyleagueproject.org (RL)Photograph "The Robertshaw brothers - Rawson, Percy and Herbert Robertshaw all played for Yorkshire as did their brother Jeremiah. - 01/01/1887" at rlhp.co.ukPhotograph "Bradford's Yorkshire Rugby Union Cup winning side - Bradford's only Yorkshire Cup winning side of the Rugby Union era. - 01/01/1884" at rlhp.co.ukPhotograph "Bradford (F.C.) c.1888 - This team contained six England internationals. - 01/01/1888" at rlhp.co.uk
{{DEFAULTSORT:Robertshaw, Rawson 1861 births 1920 deaths Bradford F.C. players England international rugby union players English rugby union players Rugby union players from Bradford Rugby union three-quarters Yorkshire County RFU players