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Percival Parr

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Percival Parr
Personal information
Full name Percival Chase Parr
Date of birth (1859-12-02)2 December 1859
Place of birth Bromley, England
Date of death (1912-09-03)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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Parr, Percivall Chase" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  3. ^ Warsop, Keith (2004). The Early F.A. Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs. Tony Brown, Soccer Data. p. 37. ISBN 1-899468-78-1.
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