12 Facts About Charles Wreford-Brown

Charles Wreford-Brown captained the England national football team and was a county cricketer during the Victorian age, and later acted as a sports legislator during the 20th century.

Charles Wreford-Brown was born in Bristol went to Charterhouse School before studying at Oriel College, Oxford.

The educated belief in the purity of a noble athletic spirit untainted by the corrupting influence of money was embodied within the rise of the Corinthian football club that Charles Wreford-Brown played for in the 1890s.

Indeed, in 1906 Charles Wreford-Brown was one of the leading figures in the movement to create the Amateur Football Alliance in London in order to keep the amateur game separate from the Football Association, an organisation that the amateur clubs found to be increasingly driven by the financial gain of the professional clubs.

Charles Wreford-Brown was a keen sportsman at the University of Oxford and played both cricket and football for the university.

Charles Wreford-Brown was a leading figure for the era's most prominent football club, Corinthian FC.

Charles Wreford-Brown was first appointed to the council of The Football Association to represent the Old Carthusians in 1892 but soon after served as the representative for Oxford University, a position he held until his death some 59 years later.

Charles Wreford-Brown later became Chairman of the International Selection Committee for England within the Football Association.

Charles Wreford-Brown was in attendance at the first meeting of the Athenian League on 27 May 1914.

Charles Wreford-Brown served as a vice-president of the FA from 1941 until his death in 1951, under Sir Stanley Rous, secretary of the Association.

In 1924, in Paris Charles Wreford-Brown participated in unofficial Chess Olympiad.

Charles Wreford-Brown took part in the 1933 British Chess Championship, though he had to drop out through illness after two rounds.