Lindsay Bury - 2 Caps (0 Goals)

  • Full Name: Lindsay Bury
  • Born: 9th July 1857, Withington, Manchester
  • Died: 30th October 1935, Stanford Wood, Berkshire aged 78
  • England Career: 1877 - 1879
  • Positions whilst with England: Full Back
  • Clubs (and caps) whilst with England: Cambridge University (1) & Old Etonians (1)
  • FA Legacy Number: 45
  • Bury attended Eton College and went up to Trinity College, Cambridge where he earned blues for cricket (1878), football (1877 & 1878) and athletics (1878, 1879 & 1880). He played nine first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University and Hampshire. Football-wise, he regularly turned out for Cambridge University and Old Etonians, the latter he helped to an FA Cup final win over Clapham Rovers in 1879. He was appointed to the FA committee in 1878 and also represented Swifts. He had an abortive attempt of trying to become an orange farmer in Florida in the 1880s but did manage to find himself a spouse in New York in 1886 before returning to England and settling in Berkshire.

England Career Statistics

  • Debut: v Scotland (FR) on 3rd March 1877 aged 19 years, 7 months, 25 days
  • Last Cap: v Wales (FR) on 18th January 1879 aged 21 years, 6 months, 9 days
  • Career Length: 1 year, 321 days
  • Starts: 2
  • Substitute: 0
  • Withdrawn: 0
  • Full Games: 2

England Match Statistics

    • Match Type
    • Caps
    • Goals
    • Capt
    • Mins
    • Friendly
    • 2
    • 0
    • 0
    • 150
    • 0
    • 0
    • Competitive
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    • Home, Away or Neutral
    • Caps
    • Goals
    • Capt
    • Mins
    • Home
    • 2
    • 0
    • 0
    • 150
    • 0
    • 0
    • Match Result
    • Caps
    • Goals
    • Capt
    • Mins
    • Won
    • 1
    • 0
    • 0
    • 60
    • 0
    • 0
    • Lost
    • 1
    • 0
    • 0
    • 90
    • 0
    • 0
    • Playing Positions
    • Caps
    • Goals
    • Capt
    • Mins
    • Full Back
    • 2
    • 0
    • 0
    • 150
    • 0
    • 0
    • Total
    • 2
    • 0
    • 0
    • 150
    • 0
    • 0

England Managers

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    • Mins

    England Team Mates (Top 10)

    Sources

    • An English Football Internationals' Who's Who by Douglas Lamming (Hutton Press 1990)
    • The Early FA Cup Finals by Keith Warsop (SoccerData 2004) p 66.
    • England's Who's Who by Tony Matthews (Pitch Publishing 2013)

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