John Marshall Dugdale
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| Born | John Marshall Dugdale[1] 15 October 1851[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Died | 30 October 1918[1] Llanfyllin (aged 67 years 15 days)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Rugby School[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Brasenose College, Oxford | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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John Marshall Dugdale (1851–1918) was a rugby union international who represented England in the first international rugby match in 1871.[1]
Early life
John Marshall Dugdale was born at Irwell Bank, Eccles, Lancashire on 15 October 1851 and baptised at Eccles on 1 January 1852.[3] He was the son of John Dugdale, Esq. of 9, Hyde Park Gardens, London[4] and Llwyn, Llanfyllin, County Montgomery.[5] He attended Rugby School,[3] and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1870, graduating B.A. in 1873.[6]
Rugby union career
Dugdale, having played rugby at school, went on to play for Ravenscourt Park FC, a stronghold of Old Rugbeians. He, along with nine other former pupils of Rugby School, was selected to play in the first international match in 1871.[2] The match was played on 27 March 1871 at Edinburgh against Scotland, and the hosts won.[1]
Career
After university, Dugdale moved to London, giving him the opportunity to play for Ravenscourt Park. In London he trained as a barrister,[3] as a student of the Inner Temple from 18 January 1871, and was called to the bar on 26 January 1875.[5] He was a member of the Oxford and Cambridge Club.[5]
Dugdale then moved to Montgomeryshire and became a member of the Northern circuit as a Justice of the Peace.[5] He became active in political, military and administrative circles of the county. In 1872 he became the Cornet (Supernumerary) of the Yeomanry Cavalry of Montgomeryshire[7] and later Major of the Yeomanry from 1889 to 1892.[8] In February 1893, he became the Deputy Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire.[9] and served as Mayor of Llanfyllin from 1893 to 1899.[8] In 1896 he held the post of High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire.[10]
In 1910 Dugdale was elected Mayor of Llanfyllin.[11] In addition, he was on the Board of Bangor University College.[8] He wrote a paper A History of the Parish of Llanfyllin from 1861 to 1915.[12]
Private life
He married Isabella Hargreaves, the only daughter of John Hargreaves of Spring Bank, Lancaster, on 20 July 1876 at Tarporley, Cheshire.[3] They had a number of children including John Percy, who attended Rugby and New College, Oxford, October from 1898 but died in 1900 in his early twenties; Maj. William Marshall Dugdale CB DSO TD (13 January 1881 – 13 November 1952), who after being in the Learning Land Agency, 1899–1901, served in the South African War of 1901–02, in the Imperial Yeomanry, leaving as a captain in 1902; and Gerald. All three sons attended Rugby School.[13]
Dugdale died on 30 October 1918 aged 67, at Llanfyllin and was buried there 2 November 1918.[14] His widow died on 28 August 1922.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Profile of John Dugdale at scrum.com
- ^ a b c Marshall, Francis, Football; the Rugby union game, p141, (1892) (London Paris Melbourne, Cassell and company, limited)
- ^ a b c d Howard, Joseph Jackson; Crisp, Frederick Arthur, eds. (1894). Visitation of England and Wales. Vol. 2. London: Privately printed. p. 106.
- ^ Rugby School Register (1886), (Rugby school), Volume: 2
- ^ a b c d
Foster, Joseph (1885). . (second ed.). London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney. p. 131.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
- ^ The London Gazette, 4 October 1872, p. 4747
- ^ a b c Brasenose College register, 1509–1909 (Volume 1)
- ^ The London Gazette, 10 February 1893. p 757
- ^ List of Sheriffs of Montgomeryshire from the Powys Local History Encyclopedia
- ^ Crisp, Frederick Arthur, ed. (1911). Visitation of England and Wales. Vol. 17. London: Privately printed. p. xiii.
- ^ A History of the Parish of Llanfyllin from 1861 to 1915 is from the Collections Historical & Archæological relating to Montgomeryshire and its Borders. vol. 38. no. 1., ASIN: B000WXZMOE
- ^ RUGBY SCHOOL REGISTER, VOLUME III, FROM MAY, 1874, TO MAY, 1904.
- ^ Crisp, Frederick Arthur, ed. (1917). Visitation of England and Wales. Vol. 20. London: Privately printed. p. xv.