Thomas Nevile Carter

Thomas Nevile Carter (September 1851 – 16 November 1879) was an English amateur sportsman who played for England in the second unofficial football match against Scotland, in November 1870. He was the brother of the Rev William Marlborough Carter KCMG, DD and the nephew of Canon T. T. Carter. He was killed by lightning in South Africa, aged 28.

Family

Carter was born at Eton College, where he was baptised on 16 September 1851.[1][2] He was the fourth son of William Adolphus Carter (1815–1901) and his wife Gertrude née Rogers (1826–1909).[2] His father was a Master, Fellow and Bursar at Eton College.[3]

His father's brother was Thomas Thellusson Carter (1808–1901), who became a significant figure in the Victorian Church of England.[4] His own brothers included William Marlborough Carter (1850–1941), who became Bishop of Zululand and then Bishop of Pretoria, before becoming Archbishop of Cape Town from 1909 to 1930,[5] and Frank Willington Carter (1865–1945), who became a businessman in Calcutta and philanthropist, co-founding the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association.[6][7]

Education

Carter attended Eton College between 1864 and 1871.[3] While at the college, he was a member of the College, Mixed Wall and Field elevens and Keeper of the Field (captain of the football XI) in 1870. He won the School Fives in 1870–71 and was Keeper of the Fives in 1871.[3] He was also the editor of the Eton College Chronicle in 1871.[3]

The Eton Register claims that Carter attended The Queen's College, Oxford, gaining an MA,[3] but there is no evidence of this in the college records.[8]

Football career

In November 1870, C. W. Alcock and Arthur F. Kinnaird were organising the second "international" match between an England XI and a Scotland XI. Alcock selected four schoolboys to represent England: Carter (captain of Eton College, aged 19), Walter Paton (captain of Harrow School aged 17), Henry J. Preston (also Eton College, aged 19) and Walpole Vidal (Westminster School, aged 17).[9][10]

The match was played at the Kennington Oval on 19 November 1870 and ended in a 1–0 victory to the English, with the solitary goal coming from R.S.F. Walker.[10][11] Although nominally playing as a defender, Carter had a goal disallowed.[12]

Later life and death

Nothing is known about Carter's life after leaving Eton College in 1871, until his death from a lightning strike in the Transvaal,[8] South Africa on 16 November 1879.[8]

References

  1. ^ "England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538–1975". ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  2. ^ a b Mitchell 2012, pp. 108–109.
  3. ^ a b c d e Eton Register 1906, p. 72.
  4. ^ Bonham, Valerie (2004). "Carter, Thomas Thellusson (1808–1901), Church of England clergyman". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32314. Retrieved 17 December 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ Dant, Charles H. "William Marlborough Carter". Distinguished Churchmen and Phases of Church Work: William Marlborough Carter. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  6. ^ "Frank Oldrieve" (PDF). International Journal of Leprosy. 1948. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  7. ^ Shah, Vinod. "Christian Contribution to India in the Area of Health". eha-health.org. p. 11. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  8. ^ a b c Mitchell 2012, p. 72.
  9. ^ Mitchell 2012, p. 26.
  10. ^ a b "England Unofficial Match No. 2". englandfootballonline.com. 19 November 1870. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  11. ^ "England 1 Scotland 0 (Match report)". londonhearts.com. 19 November 1870. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  12. ^ Mitchell 2012, p. 29.

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