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Full name
  
Horace Hutton Barnet

Role
  
Football player

Name
  
Horace Barnet


Years
  
Team

Playing position
  
Forward

Date of birth
  
(1856-03-06)6 March 1856

Place of birth
  
Kensington, London, England

Date of death
  
29 March 1941(1941-03-29) (aged 85)

Died
  
March 29, 1941, Knightsbridge, London, United Kingdom

Place of death
  
Knightsbridge, England

Horace Hutton Barnet (6 March 1856 – 29 March 1941) was an English football player who played for the Royal Engineers, as well as the English national side against Ireland. He also took part in the 1878 FA Cup Final when the Royal Engineers lost to Wanderers.

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Early life

Barnet was born at Kensington and educated at Rugby School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

Sport

Barnet had played football for Rugby School and Woolwich Academy.

He played as outside-right and was described in his early days by C.W. Alcock as 'a very promising player, possessing great speed, and very useful along the side', then as 'plays right wing, very fast clever, but middles weakly, and is a bad shot at goal'. Besides his F.A. Cup Final appearance, he also represented England in their match against Ireland in 1882 at Croker Park, Dublin. It was Ireland's international debut and England took a record victory of 13-0.

Besides his regimental team, he also appeared in representative matches for London, Middlesex, and in The South versus The North. He was on The Football Association committee in 1883.

He also played cricket for the Royal Engineers XI and M.C.C., was a proficient sprinter, and in India became a big game hunter with ten tigers shot to his credit.

Military career

Joining as a Lieutenant in 1875, he was promoted Captain in 1886, Major in 1894, Lieutenant-Colonel in 1901, retiring as Colonel in 1909.

He was posted to India with the Bombay Engineers in 1878 and saw active service in the Afghan War of 1879 but was invalided home with bad sunstroke. After sick leave he served at the Engineers' Chatham Depot until 1883 when he returned to join the railways department, then had more active service in the Burmese War of 1885-87. After this he joined the Indian Military Works Department where he remained until retirement. He was Executive Engineer at Quetta where he built the garrison church, and at Allahabad, Multan, Calcutta, Barrackpore, Hansi, then Commanding R.E. at Lucknow and later Meerut.

He was recalled from his retirement in World War I when he served in the Intelligence Branch of the War Office.

Honours

Royal Engineers
  • FA Cup finalists: 1878
  • References

    Horace Barnet Wikipedia