Harry Rigby | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Claude Henry Rigby | ||
Date of birth | 9 January 1878 | ||
Place of birth | Kyneton, Victoria | ||
Date of death | 7 December 1924 | (aged 46)||
Place of death | Clifton Hill, Victoria | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1900–1902 | Carlton (VFL) | 29 (2) | |
1904 | Collingwood Juniors (VJFA) | ||
1905–1906 | Richmond (VFA) | ||
1907–1908 | Melbourne (VFL) | 27 (0) | |
Total | 56 (2) | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1908. | |||
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
Claude Henry Rigby (9 January 1878 – 7 December 1924) was a pharmacist, and a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and with Richmond Football Club in the VFA. [1]
The son of Dr. George Owen Rigby (1916), [2] and Frances Maria Rigby (1841-1926), née English, [3] Claude Henry Rigby was born at Kyneton, Victoria on 9 January 1878. He married Isabella Ellen Megson (1881-1952) in 1908. [4]
He was a "fleet-footed, lightly framed wingman". [5] [6]
Recruited from Kyneton, he played 29 games for Carlton Football Club over the three seasons, 1900 to 1902.
In 1900 he played for a VFL intra-state team, against a combined Ballarat Association team. [7]
He played his last game for Carlton against Fitzroy on 7 June 1902 (round 6); and, a week later, he turned out for Kyneton Collegians in the Kyneton District Football Association. [8]
In 1904 he was granted a clearance from both the Kyneton Football Club and Carlton to Collingwood Juniors Football Club in the Victorian Junior Football Association. [9] [10]
Granted a clearance from Carlton in 1905, [11] he played for the Richmond Football Club in 1905 and 1906; [12] [13] and, playing on the wing, was a member of the 1905 Richmond (VFA) premiership team. [14]
He played 27 games for the Melbourne Football Club in two seasons, 1907 and 1908.
A qualified pharmacist, [15] and although in poor health, Rigby died unexpectedly — "[as] the result of a severe attack of ptomaine poisoning" [16] — at his U.F.S. dispensary in Queens Parade, Clifton Hill, Victoria, on 7 December 1924. [17]
Harry Rigby | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Claude Henry Rigby | ||
Date of birth | 9 January 1878 | ||
Place of birth | Kyneton, Victoria | ||
Date of death | 7 December 1924 | (aged 46)||
Place of death | Clifton Hill, Victoria | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1900–1902 | Carlton (VFL) | 29 (2) | |
1904 | Collingwood Juniors (VJFA) | ||
1905–1906 | Richmond (VFA) | ||
1907–1908 | Melbourne (VFL) | 27 (0) | |
Total | 56 (2) | ||
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1908. | |||
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
Claude Henry Rigby (9 January 1878 – 7 December 1924) was a pharmacist, and a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and with Richmond Football Club in the VFA. [1]
The son of Dr. George Owen Rigby (1916), [2] and Frances Maria Rigby (1841-1926), née English, [3] Claude Henry Rigby was born at Kyneton, Victoria on 9 January 1878. He married Isabella Ellen Megson (1881-1952) in 1908. [4]
He was a "fleet-footed, lightly framed wingman". [5] [6]
Recruited from Kyneton, he played 29 games for Carlton Football Club over the three seasons, 1900 to 1902.
In 1900 he played for a VFL intra-state team, against a combined Ballarat Association team. [7]
He played his last game for Carlton against Fitzroy on 7 June 1902 (round 6); and, a week later, he turned out for Kyneton Collegians in the Kyneton District Football Association. [8]
In 1904 he was granted a clearance from both the Kyneton Football Club and Carlton to Collingwood Juniors Football Club in the Victorian Junior Football Association. [9] [10]
Granted a clearance from Carlton in 1905, [11] he played for the Richmond Football Club in 1905 and 1906; [12] [13] and, playing on the wing, was a member of the 1905 Richmond (VFA) premiership team. [14]
He played 27 games for the Melbourne Football Club in two seasons, 1907 and 1908.
A qualified pharmacist, [15] and although in poor health, Rigby died unexpectedly — "[as] the result of a severe attack of ptomaine poisoning" [16] — at his U.F.S. dispensary in Queens Parade, Clifton Hill, Victoria, on 7 December 1924. [17]