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Percy Barnfather

Percy Barnfather

Barnfather while with New Brompton
Personal information
Full name	Percy Barnfather[1]
Date of birth	(1879-12-17)17 December 1879
Place of birth	Byker, England
Date of death	18 December 1951(1951-12-18) (aged 72)[2]
Place of death	Westminster, England
Height	5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) – 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) (depending on source quoted)
Position(s)	Outside right
Youth career
	Throckley
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1900–1903	Wallsend Park Villa
1903–1904	Barnsley	27	(3)
1904–1906	New Brompton	39	(4)
1906	Southampton
1906–1907	West Stanley
1907–1909	Croydon Common	25	(16)
1909–1910	Norwich City	32	(4)
1910–1911	Croydon Common	15	(10)
1911–1912	West Stanley
1912–1916	Croydon Common	81	(18)
1919–1920	Merthyr Town	4	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Percy Barnfather MC (17 December 1879 – 18 December 1951) was an English professional footballer, who made 265 appearances and scored 85 goals in all competitions as an outside right for Croydon Common, before and during the First World War.

Playing career[edit]

Anoutside right, Barnfather joined Second Division club Barnsley in 1903 and made 25 appearances during the 1903–04 season, scoring four goals.^[2] In June 1904, he joined Southern League First Division club New Brompton and remained at Priestfield for two seasons.^[2] After a non-playing spell with Southampton,^[3] he spent the 1906–07 season back in his native northeast with North Eastern League club West Stanley.^[2]

Barnfather returned to the Southern League to join Second Division club Croydon Common in August 1907 and aside from a spell with Norwich City and a second spell with West Stanley, he spent the majority of the remainder of his career with the Robins.^[2] Barnfather's professional career with Croydon Common came to an end at the end of the 1914–15 season, by which time he had made 140 appearances and scored 48 goals during three spells at The Nest.^[2] He finished his career with a short spell at Southern League First Division club Merthyr Town during the 1919–20 season, under manager and former Croydon Common teammate Harry Hadley.^[2]

Personal life[edit]

Barnfather was born in Byker and attended Welleck Road School in Newcastle.^[2] He was a plumber and engineer by trade and was married with three children.^[2] After retiring from football, Barnfather worked in a clerical role in the Ministry of Supply.^[2] He died of stomach cancer in 1951 and is buried in Croydon.^[4]

First World War[edit]

In December 1914, four months after the outbreak of the First World War, Barnfather enlisted as a private in the Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment.^[5] Through the course of his service, he rose from private to captain and won the Military Cross in 1918.^[2][6]

Career statistics[edit]

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Honours[edit]

Croydon Common

• Southern League Second Division: 1908–09, 1913–14^[2]
• Southern Football Alliance: 1912–13^[2]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Percy BarnfatheronLives of the First World War

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