William Heap Bailey (28 February 1847 – 1 February 1926)
[ was an amateur athlete who played for Scotland in the second unofficial football match against England in November 1870.
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Early life and career
Bailey was born in Melbourne, Derbyshire
Melbourne () is a market town and civil parish in South Derbyshire, England.
It was home to Thomas Cook, and has a street named after him. It is south of Derby and from the River Trent. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was ...
, the son of William Heap Bailey and his wife Elizabeth née Worall.[
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Football career
Bailey played football for the Civil Service[ and for Upton Park (from 1868 to 1870), becoming the club captain.][
In November 1870, C. W. Alcock and Arthur F. Kinnaird were organising the second "international" match between an England XI and a Scotland XI. Kinnaird had initially selected William Baillie-Hamilton (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 ]Kennington Oval
The Oval, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Kia Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, located in the borough of Lambeth, in south London. The Oval has been the home ground of Surrey County Cricket Club since it ...
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 Bonnie Prince Charlie
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's army in 1745 and had settled in Derby
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The match ended in a 1–0 victory to the English, with the solitary goal coming from R.S.F. Walker.
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Later career
In about 1870, Bailey joined the Bass Brewery
The Bass Brewery () was founded in 1777 by William Bass in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England. The main brand was Bass Pale Ale, once the highest-selling beer in the UK. By 1877, Bass had become the largest brewery in the world, with ...
in Burton-upon-Trent, and later returned to London as their local manager.[
There are two mentions of William Heap Bailey in '']The London Gazette
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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 Dugald Drummond
Dugald Drummond (1 January 1840 – 8 November 1912) was a Scottish steam locomotive engineer. He had a career with the North British Railway, LB&SCR, Caledonian Railway and London and South Western Railway. He was the older brother of the eng ...
, the locomotive engineer.[
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References
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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