William McBeath was a Scottish footballer and one of the founding members of Rangers Football Club.
12 Facts About William McBeath
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William McBeath made five Scottish Cup appearances for the club.
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William McBeath was born in Callander, Perthshire on 7 May 1856; the third of four children to Peter and Jane McBeath.
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At age eight, soon after the death of his father; William McBeath's mother moved with William McBeath and his older sister Jane to Glasgow, no doubt attracted by the rapidly expanding industrial city.
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William McBeath played his last game for Rangers in November 1875 and left the club soon after.
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In 1878, at the age of 22, William McBeath married Jeannie Yates Harris.
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William McBeath was cleared of falsely selling advertisements for a newspaper that was never distributed.
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William McBeath soon married in 1898, but this was most likely a bigamous marriage.
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William McBeath lived the majority of his later years in a Poorhouse in Lincoln, branded an "imbecile", although today he would have been probably diagnosed as suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
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William McBeath died on Sunday 15 July 1917 aged 61; he had spent his last seven years in the poorhouse.
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William McBeath was buried in an unmarked grave in a Lincoln cemetery.
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On 22 February 2010, William McBeath was inducted into the Rangers Hall Of Fame alongside Lorenzo Amoruso, Derek Parlane, Ian McMillan and George Brown.