William Heap Bailey (28 February 1847 – 1 February 1926) was an amateur athlete who played for Scotland in the second unofficial

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match against England in November 1870.

Early life and career

Bailey was born in

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, the son of William Heap Bailey and his wife Elizabeth née Worall. Bailey attended the Derby Mechanics Institution and joined the

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in 1864 as an assistant bookkeeper in the Science & Arts Department. In 1866, he moved to the Civil Service Commission and then in 1869 to the Paymaster General's office.

Football career

Bailey played

for the

and for Upton Park (from 1868 to 1870), becoming the club captain. In November 1870,

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and Arthur F. Kinnaird were organising the second "international" match between an England XI and a Scotland XI. Kinnaird had initially selected

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(who also played for the Civil Service) as one of the "Scottish" players, but he failed to arrive in time for the match, to be played at

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on 19 November 1870. Despite having little or no Scottish connections, William Bailey was selected to make up the numbers. The Bailey family tradition is that an ancestor had come to England with

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's army in 1745 and had settled in

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. In the match report in the ''Sporting Gazette'', Bailey's name is mis-spelt as "Baillie". The match ended in a 1–0 victory to the English, with the solitary goal coming from R.S.F. Walker.

Later career

In about 1870, Bailey joined the

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, and later returned to London as their local manager. There are two mentions of William Heap Bailey in ''

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'': *On 16 April 1880, he is mentioned as executor of Thomas Henry Dagg. Bailey is described as a "Brewer" of Burton-on-Trent. *On 24 July 1900, he is listed as a shareholder in a petition to wind up Doherty Iron Castings Process Limited. He is described as a "gentleman". Other petitioners include

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, the locomotive engineer. In 1881, he married Louisa Cartlidge; they had one son and two daughters.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bailey, William Heap 1847 births 1926 deaths People from Melbourne, Derbyshire Sportspeople from Derbyshire Scotland men's representative footballers (1870–1872) British civil servants Civil Service F.C. players Upton Park F.C. players Men's association football players not categorized by position English men's footballers