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Alan J Thompson
1 Posted 14/02/2021 at 05:51:36
Received compensation for signing off, the modern day equivalent might be signing with a new club after being out of contract at the last one or a form of testimonial albeit John Dewar would have been about 30 years old at the time and only played one game for Everton.

There was a time when retiring Everton players seemed to be found a pub to run; I remember Alex Parker running one in Runcorn. It might be interesting to see where and how players from before the 1970s ended up in retirement.

David Greenwood
2 Posted 14/02/2021 at 18:49:35
Thanks Tony,

Another great read about very different times.

Tony Onslow
3 Posted 14/02/2021 at 20:05:45
AJ: Answers to what became of the Everton championship winning side of 1891,

Dave Jardine returned to the Scottish Lowlands where he ran a Tailoring Business. He is buried near Lockerbie.

A Hannah returned to Scotland and ended his working days as a Security Officer at the John Brown Shipyard; he is buried in Clydebank.

Danny Doyle returned to Celtic, where he ran a Whiskey Business; he is buried in Glasgow.

Danny Kirkwood remain in Liverpool and ran his own business; he died in Wallasey.

John Holt, after joining Reading, was a partner in a Mineral Water business and died at Haywards Heath, Sussex.

Wattie Campbell became a Chief Engineer in the Merchant Navy; he died in Liverpool.

Alex Latta worked in the shipbuilding business; he died on the Wirral.

Alec Brady returned to Scotland, worked at the Singer Sawing Machine factory in Clydebank and died at Renton.

Fred Geary remained in Liverpool, ran a Public House, and is buried in Anfield Cemetery.

Alf Millward moved to Southampton, ran a Public House, and died in Winchester.

Edgar Chadwick returned to the family Grocery business in Blackburn and worked there until he died.

Alan J Thompson
4 Posted 15/02/2021 at 05:11:39
Tony (#3); Thanks for that and it makes me wonder if they were a talented set of people in life in general or was a case of how life was then, succeed or perish.

Again, many thanks, most illuminating.


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