Bertram Mitford Heron Rogers (25 August 1860 – 10 February 1953) was an English footballer who played in the 1880 FA Cup Final.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Bertram Mitford Heron Rogers | ||
| Date of birth | 25 August 1860 | ||
| Place of birth | Oxford | ||
| Date of death | 10 February 1953 (aged 92) | ||
| Place of death | Oxford | ||
| Position(s) | Half-back | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1880 | North Oxford | ||
| 1880–81 | Oxford University | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Early life
editRogers was the second son of Thorold Rogers and was born at 4 Wellington Place in Oxford. He attended the School of Art in Oxford and Magdalen College School in Oxford, before going up to Westminster School.[1] He represented Westminster at cricket,[2] averaging 10 with the bat over 15 innings in 1877.[3]
In 1876, Rogers discovered the body of his older brother, Henry, who had hanged himself, at the family home in Oxford, and gave extensive evidence at the inquest.[4]
Rogers went up to Exeter College, Oxford in January 1880, and took his Bachelor of Arts in 1883.[5]
Football career
editHis first known football match was for the North Oxford club against Newbury in February 1880, as a forward;[6] although Westminster was known as a footballing nursery, he never represented the school.
However Rogers was a late bloomer, as his appearance for North Oxford led to him being chosen the following month for the Oxford University side as a half-back in the 1879–80 FA Cup quarter-final tie with the Royal Engineers; by coincidence, the captain at the start of the season had been another Rogers (Percy John Mackarness), but he was no relation. Rogers' first three competitive matches came inside a week - the original tie with the Sappers, the replay after the original match was drawn, and, in between, the Varsity match against Cambridge. He played as half-back in all three matches, which were all played at the Kennington Oval. Oxford beat the Sappers in the replay,[7] but lost the Varsity.[8]
Rogers kept his place in the win over Nottingham Forest in the semi-final,[9] and, in the final against Clapham Rovers, "greatly distinguished" himself, but the Rovers clinched the game with a late goal.[10]
Rogers only appears in two more matches, a 4–0 win over Maidenhead in October 1880,[11] and again on the losing side in the Varsity in February 1881.[12]
Personal life
editRogers became a doctor of medicine, living in Clifton, Bristol, and on 2 October 1891 married Agnes Fletcher at Carfax.[13] The couple had two daughters.
He was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and a licenciate of the Royal College of Physicians, and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, being appointed Lieutenant in 1908.[14] By 1921 he was a lieutenant-colonel[15] and was made an Officer of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in October 1927.[16]
He was an author of a number of medical papers, and edited a handbook to Bristol for the British Association in 1898, contributing a chapter on meteorology.[17]
He returned to Oxford in retirement, where he died on 10 February 1953, with his daughters being granted probate; his estate was worth over £27,800.[18]
References
edit- ^ Gilbert, Rosemary (1998). Annie M.A.H. Rogers and the admission of women to the University of Oxford. Kent: University of Kent.
- ^ "Westminster v Charterhouse". Sportsman: 4. 24 July 1876.
- ^ "Westminster batting averages". Bell's Life: 4. 5 January 1878.
- ^ "Mysterious suicide of a young gentleman at Oxford". Oxfordshire Weekly News: 3. 20 September 1876.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1891). Alumni Oxonienses Volume III. Oxford: James Parker & Co. p. 1218.
- ^ "Football - Newbury F.C. v The North Oxford F.C.". Newbury Weekly News: 4. 19 February 1880.
- ^ "The Association Challenge Cup". Daily News: 3. 16 March 1880.
- ^ Bruce-Kerr, J; Abrahams, Harold (1931). Oxford versus Cambridge. London: Faber & Faber. p. 308.
- ^ "The Association Challenge Cup". Bell's Life: 10. 27 March 1880.
- ^ "Association Challenge Cup - Final Tie". Athletic News: 3. 14 April 1880.
- ^ "Oxford University v Maidenhead". Referee: 6. 30 October 1881.
- ^ Bruce-Kerr, J; Abrahams, Harold (1931). Oxford versus Cambridge. London: Faber & Faber. p. 308.
- ^ "Marriage of Miss Fletcher". Oxfordshire Weekly News: 2. 7 October 1891.
- ^ "Royal Army Medical Corps". Western Daily Press: 3. 6 July 1908.
- ^ "Public notices". Western Daily Press: 4. 18 November 1921.
- ^ "The Grand Priory in the British Realm of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem". London Gazette (33322): 1. 21 October 1927.
- ^ Rogers, Bertram (1898). Handbook to Bristol and the neighbourhood. Stone Bridge: John Wright & Co.
- ^ Calendar of all grants of probate and letters of administration N.O.P.Q.R. Birkenhead: Willmer Brothers. 1953. p. 929.