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Howard
Vaughton |
Aston Villa
FC
5 appearances, 6 goals
five goals on debut
P 5 W 2 D 0 L 3 F 21:
A 11
40% successful
1882-84
captain: none
minutes played: 450 |
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Timeline |
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Oliver Howard Vaughton |
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Birth |
Wednesday, 9 January 1861 at 127 Hampton Street,
Hampton, Birmingham, Warwickshire |
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registered in Birmingham
January-March 1861 |
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According to the
1861 census, Oliver H. is the youngest of the two children to Thomas and Rosina
Julia (née
Gilbert), and with
one servant they live at 127 Hampton Street in Birmingham. His father is
a jeweller. |
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According to the 1871 census,
Oliver H. is the second oldest, now with six more siblings, living at 129
Albert Road in Aston Manor. His father is a goldsmith jeweller employing
24. |
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"PROFESSOR DIXON,
The Champion Skater of
the Midlands, and
MR. HOWARD VAUGHTON
(Winner of the First
Prize Medal at the late Bingley Hall Rink Competition, open to all
England), will also appear in their celebrated Fancy Skating
Entertainment, introducing the Swell and the Girl of the Period."
- Saturday, 19 January
1878, County Advertiser & Herald for Staffordshire and Worcestershire |
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According to the 1881 census,
Oliver H. is still at home with his parents, now with three more younger
siblings, he is a machinist, all are still living at 129 Albert Road with
one servant. His father is now retired. |
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According to the
1891 census, Oliver H. is the oldest of the seven children, all still at
home with their parents at 94 Trinity Road in Handsworth. Oliver is a die
sinker at his father's gold jewellers. They have two servants. |
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Marriage |
to Lizzie Isabel Annie Reeves-Smith, on 21 October 1893 at Seaford, Sussex |
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registered in Eastbourne October-December 1893 |
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"VAUGHTON—REEVES-SMITH.—Oct.
21, at Seaford, by the Rev. W. H. Mead Buck, Oliver Howard Vaughton, of
Birmingham, to Lizzie Isabel, younger daughter of Geo. Reeves-Smith, Esq.,
of Seaford, Sussex." -
Wednesday, 25 October 1893, London Evening
Standard/Saturday, 28 October 1893, West Sussex County Times/Sussex
Agricultural Express |
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Children |
Howard and Lizzie Vaughton had six children together. Annie Reeves Smith
(b.28 November 1894),
Catherine May Gertrude (b.11 December 1896), Howard George (b.6 July 1898), Aileen (b.23 July 1900),
Doris (b.3 July 1902) and Grace
(b.23 May 1905) |
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According to the
1901 census, Oliver H. is married to Lizzie and they have four children,
Annie Reeves Smith, Catherine May Gertrude, Howard George and Eileen,
along with two servants they live at Goldthorne, on Ascot Road in Moseley.
He is still a die sinker, as well as a stamper and a medalist, but he now
employs. |
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According to the
1911 census, Oliver and Lizzie have two more children, Doris and Grace,
making six, and with two servants, they at 3 Ascot Road in Moseley. Oliver
is a manufacturer, as well as a goldsmith. |
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According to the
1921 census, Oliver and Lizzie, along with their four daughters, now live at
23 Oxford Road in Moseley. Oliver
is a jeweller.
(Lizzie Vaughton died on 26 June 1932) |
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"GREAT SPORTSMAN ILL—Mr. Howard
Vaughton, Director of Aston Villa.
"Mr. Howard Vaughton, the Aston
Villa director, is seriously ill in a nursing home. A few weeks ago Mr.
Vaughton suffered a great bereavement by the loss of his wife. He has been
in indifferent health for a long time." -
Friday, 5 August 1932, Birmingham Daily
Gazette |
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Death |
 Wednesday,
6 January 1937, at St. Andrew's Hospital (for Mental Diseases) on Billing
Road, Northampton,
Northamptonshire. |
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aged
75 years 362 days |
registered in Northampton January-March
1937 |
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Obituary |
"DEATH OF NOTED SPORTSMAN—
"MR.
OLIVER HOWARD VAUGHTON—
"ASTON VILLA VETERAN
"The death is
announced of Mr. Oliver Howard Vaughton, well-known Midland sportsman and
a former President of Aston Villa Football Club. Mr. Vaughton had been
in ill-health for two or three years, and his death followed an operation. His home was at 23, Oxford-road, Moseley.
"In
his younger days Mr. Vaughton was well-known as an international
footballer, a skater who achieved national fame, a cricketer of county
class, and a successful racing track cyclist. He also gained a name at
running, boxing, swimming, hockey and as a gymnast. Mr. Vaughton, who
was 76 years of age, played football as a youth of 14 for the Waterloo
Football Club and joined Aston Villa Club in 1880 after a spell with the
Birmingham Cricket and Football Club. He was only 21 when he
represented England in international matches against Scotland, Wales and
Ireland. He was a member of the Villa team which won the English F.A. Cup
for the first time in 1887. He retired fro, football at the close of that
season and turned his attention to hockey, speedily graduating as a
county player. Mr. Vaughton often played for the Staffordshire County
Cricket Club, and playing against the Australians in 1880, caught the
famous W. L. Murdoch. He served on the Management Committee and the
Ground Committee of the Warwickshire County Cricket Club. He showed
similar proficiency at skating, and before he was 16 years of age had won
the first prize in the All-England rink figure-skating contest.
"Mr.
Vaughton was a widower. The funeral will be at Yardley Wood Church on
Monday."
-
Friday, 8 January 1937, Birmingham Daily
Gazette |
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Funeral
Monday, 11 January 1937
Christ Church in Yardley Wood |
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"FUNERAL OF MR.
HOWARD VAUGHTON
"Midland sportsmen were among the mourners at
the funeral of Mr. Oliver Howard Vaughton, former president of Aston Villa
Football Club, which took place at Yardley Wood Church yesterday.
"The
service was conducted by the Rev. I. Rees-Jones, while Mr. H. A. Elliott
was at the organ." -
Tuesday, 12 January 1937, Birmingham Daily
Gazette |
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Probate |
"VAUGHTON
Oliver Howard of 23 Oxford-road Moseley
Birmingham died 6
January 1937 at St. Andrew's Hospital Northampton Administration (with
Will)
London 6 March to
Howard George Vaughton company director and Annie Reeve Smith Vaughton
spinster.
Effects £5969 8s. 8d."
[2019 equivalent: £409,668]. |
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"Mr. Oliver
Howard Vaughton, of 23, Oxford-road, Moseley, former player and president
of the Aston Villa F.C., left £5,969, net personalty £5,572.
"Probate
has been granted to his son, Howard George Vaughton, of Edgbaston-road,
Birmingham, company director, and his daughter, Miss Annie Reeve Smith
Vaughton, of 23, Oxford-road, two of the persons entitled to share in the
estate, his wife, to whom he left all his property, having pre-deceased
him." -
Monday, 22 March 1937, Birmingham Daily
Gazette |
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"Sisters die
within 15 minutes
"For 14 years the three Vaughton sisters
quietly and efficiently ran their tearooms on the fringe of the
Shakespeare county. Miss Grace Vaughton, and her sister Miss May, by now
in her 70s, baked the cakes and prepared other delicacies. Though crippled
with arthritis, the eldest sister, Miss Aniie, did the books. Now their
hopes of reopening at Easter the tearooms in High Street, Henley-in-Arden,
have been dashed. Miss Annie was taken ill and died and within 15 minutes
Miss May died. Friends and fellow business people in Henley last night
mourned the deaths of two of the 'three inseparables.' One neigbour said:
'They are people who will be very missed in Henley. We never knew much
about their background, but they seem well connected.' The living quarters
of their little business was silent and unoccupied last night. Miss Grace
was staying in another part of the town with a friend, the widow of a
former Birmingham baker." -
Monday, 6 February 1967, The Birmingham
Post |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
Began his
playing career with a string of Birmingham clubs, including Waterloo FC,
Birmingham CFC, then Wednesday Strollers, before joining Aston Villa FC in
August
1880 until May 1887. After returning to amateur status in October 1887,
Vaughton spent the rest of the season assisting Mitchell St. George's FC. Retired with a thigh injury;
Afterwhich he took up Hockey. |
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Club honours |
FA Cup winners
1886-87; |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Howard Vaughton
was also British skating champion and also played cricket for both
Staffordshire and Warwickshire. A road in Birmingham is also named after the
Vaughton Family, which still holds strong links to Birmingham and other
areas such as Wales. |
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Height/Weight |
not
known |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of
seven who became the
ninetieth players
(96) to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Inside/centre-forward; |
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First match |
No. 14, 18
February 1882, Ireland 0 England 13, a friendly match at
Knock Ground, Bloomfield,
Belfast, aged 21 years 40 days.
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Last match |
No. 22, 17
March 1884,
Wales 0 England 4, a British Championship match at
The Racecourse,
Mold Road, Wrexham,
aged 23 years 68 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship 1883-84; |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
England's Top Goalscorer (six
(a new record)
1881-82). The first
to score more than three. |
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Distinctions |
Along with
Arthur Brown,
the first Villa players to represent England. |
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Beyond England |
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After his football career
ended he ran a silversmith's firm and was charged with making a new FA Cup
after the original disappeared in mysterious circumstances in 1895.
vice-President of Aston Villa FC in 1923, President in June 1924, for
three months. Became a Director of the club from September 1924
until December 1932, elected a life member in February 1933. Was
also on the management and ground committees of Warwickshire CCC. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming
(1990). Hatton Press, p.253 |
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The Numbers |
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parties |
Apps |
comp.apps |
minutes |
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Goals
ave.min |
comp.goals |
captain |
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5 |
5 |
2 |
450 |
6 |
75 min |
none |
none |
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The minutes here given
can only ever be a guideline and cannot therefore be accurate, only an
approximation. |
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P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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5 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
21 |
11 |
+10 |
1 |
2 |
4.2 |
2.2 |
40 |
-1 |
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All of his matches were played at an away
venue |
Competition Record
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Competition |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
| British Championship |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
+3 |
1 |
1 |
2.00 |
0.50 |
50.0 |
=0 |
| Friendly |
3 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
17 |
10 |
+7 |
0 |
1 |
5.667 |
3.333 |
33.3 |
-1 |
Tournament Record
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British Championship Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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BC 1883-84 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
+3 |
1 |
1 |
2.00 |
0.50 |
50.0 |
=0 |
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BC
All |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
+3 |
1 |
1 |
2.00 |
0.50 |
50.0 |
=0 |
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All Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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BC |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
+3 |
1 |
1 |
2.00 |
0.50 |
50.0 |
=0 |
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2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
+3 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
0.5 |
50 |
=0 |
Match History
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