Alby Bowtell
{{short description|Australian rules footballer}}
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| fullname = Albert Henry Bowtell
| birth_date = {{birth date|1887|06|27|df=y}}
| birth_place = Collingwood, Victoria
| death_date = {{death date and age|1948|07|11|1887|06|27|df=y}}
| death_place = Preston, Victoria
| originalteam = Albert Park
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| statsend = 1911
| years1 = 1911
| club1 = {{AFL StK}}
| games_goals1 = 1 (0)
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Albert Henry Bowtell (27 June 1887 – 11 July 1948) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Holmesby & Main (2014), p.84.
Family
The son of David Walmsley Bowtell, and Mary Ann Bowtell, née Davies, Albert Henry Bowtell was born in Collingwood on 27 June 1887.His birth was registered as "Henry Albert Bowtell".
He married Ethel May Harcombe (1888-1920) on 18 January 1911.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196184411 Marriages: Bowtell—Harcombe, The Age, (Saturday, 18 February 1911), p.7.][http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242316981 Death: Bowtell, The Herald, (Friday, 16 July 1920), p.12.][http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article255882319 Topics of the Week: Personal, The Richmond Guardian, (Saturday, 31 July 1920), p.2.] His second wife was Alexandrina Victoria Clark (1887-1973), née Patten.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2035911 Death of Ship's Cook, The Argus, (Tuesday, 3 February 1925), p.9.]
Football
One of nine new players in the team, Bowtell played his only First XVIII match for St Kilda against Carlton, at Princes park, on 29 July 1911.
The other new players were: Roy Cazaly, Claude Crowl, Peter Donnelly, Alf Hammond, Otto Opelt, Rowley Smith, Tom Soutar, and Bill Ward — and, including that match, and ignoring Harrie Hattam (16 games), Bert Pierce (41 games), and Bill Woodcock (65 games), the very inexperienced team's remaining fifteen players had only played a total of 46 matches.
Death
He died at his Preston residence on 11 July 1948.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206901538 Deaths: Bowtell, The Age, (Monday, 12 July 1948), p.2.]
Notes
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References
- {{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 |last=Holmesby|first=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim |year=2014 |edition=10th |isbn=978-1-921496-32-5 |publisher=BAS Publishing |location=Seaford, Victoria}}
External links
- {{AFL Tables|ref=A/Alby_Bowtell.html}}
- {{AustralianFootball|ref=alby%2Bbowtell/2906}}
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Category:Australian rules footballers from Melbourne
Category:St Kilda Football Club players
Category:People from Collingwood, Victoria
Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen
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