Albert Meysey-Thompson

Albert Childers Meysey-Thompson (13 July 1848 – 20 March 1894) was an English footballer who played for Wanderers in the 1872 FA Cup Final and for Old Etonians in the 1875 and 1876 FA Cup Finals.

Family and education

Born in York as Albert Childers Thompson, he was the son of Sir Harry Meysey-Thompson, 1st Baronet (1809–1874) and Elizabeth Anne Croft. His father was well known as an agriculturalist who helped found the Yorkshire Agricultural Society in 1837, becoming its President in 1862, and was one of the founders of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1838. He was also M.P. for Whitby from 1859 to 1865.[1] In March 1874, shortly before his death, he was created the First Baronet Meysey-Thompson, of Kirby Hall, in the county of York. "Meysey" was Harry Thompson's grandmother's surname.[2]

His brother Charles played for Wanderers in the 1873 FA Cup Final.[3]

Thompson was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson". genealogy.links.org. http://genealogy.links.org/links-cgi/readged?/home/ben/camilla-genealogy/current+c-mthompson45730+2-2-0-1-0. Retrieved 1 April 2011. 
  2. ^ "Sir Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson, 1st Bt.". www.thepeerage.com. 11 January 2009. http://www.thepeerage.com/p3089.htm#i30886. Retrieved 1 April 2011. 
  3. ^ Warsop, Keith (2004). The Early FA Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs. SoccerData. p. 129. ISBN 1-899468-78-1. 
  4. ^ Thompson, Albert in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.