Percival Parr
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Percival Chase Parr | ||
| Date of birth | 2 December 1859 | ||
| Place of birth | Bromley, England | ||
| Date of death | 3 September 1912 | ||
| Place of death | Bromley, England | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Oxford University | |||
| International career | |||
| 1882 | England | 1 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Percival Chase Parr (2 December 1859 – 3 September 1912) was an English footballer who earned one cap for the national team in 1882. Parr played club football usually as goalkeeper but later as centre-forward for Oxford University, taking part in the 1880 FA Cup Final.[1]
Early life[edit]
Parr was born at Bickley, near Bromley, Kent, son of General Thomas Chase Parr, and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, graduating as B.A. in 1883.[1][2]
Football career[edit]
Parr had played in the Winchester football XI in 1877, and was an Oxford football Blue in each year of 1880 to 1882, captaining his team in the latter year.[1] C.W. Alcock described him as "a splendid goalkeeper, very cool and full of pluck" though he also appeared for England as centre-forward in his one international game, against Wales at Wrexham in 1882, scoring a goal. He kept goal in his first two Varsity matches, but captained his team as centre in the third.[1]
At the FA Cup Final for Oxford against Clapham Rovers on 10 April 1880 at Kennington Oval, he kept goal successfully until, just six minutes before call of time, Clopton Lloyd-Jones scored the match's only goal, let in through a weak mis-kick from Oxford teammate Charles King, for Rovers.[3]
Parr also played for Swifts F.C., where as centre he scored the hat-trick of goals against Upton Park in a second round F.A. Cup tie replay in 1882, as well as old boy club Old Wykehamists. He also played in representative matches for West Kent and Kent county.[1]
He was a member of the Football Association committee in 1881.[1]
Other sports[edit]
Parr was also a cricketer, playing in the Winchester College XI in 1877-78 and made one first-class cricket appearance for the Gentlemen of Kent in 1880.[1]
Career outside sport[edit]
Parr was a barrister, called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1885, who later branched out into publishing. He was partner in the publishing firm of W.H. Allen & Company, and editor of magazines National Observer from 1894 and Ladies' Field. He died at his last home, Molescroft, at Widmore, Bromley, in 1912 aged fifty-two.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h Warsop, Keith (2004). The Early F.A. Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs. Tony Brown, Soccer Data. pp. 112–113. ISBN 1-899468-78-1.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Warsop, Keith (2004). The Early F.A. Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs. Tony Brown, Soccer Data. p. 37. ISBN 1-899468-78-1.
External links[edit]
- Percival Parr at Englandstats.com
| International | |
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| National | |
- 1859 births
- 1912 deaths
- English men's footballers
- England men's international footballers
- Oxford University A.F.C. players
- People educated at Winchester College
- English cricketers
- Gentlemen of Kent cricketers
- Men's association football goalkeepers
- Footballers from the London Borough of Bromley
- People from Bromley