Thomas Allsopp

{{short description|English cricketer and footballer (1880–1919)}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Thomas Allsopp

| country = England

| fullname = Thomas Charlesworth Allsopp{{Cite book |title=Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939 |last=Joyce |first=Michael |publisher=Tony Brown |year=2012 |isbn=978-1905891610 |location=Nottingham |page=8}}

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1880|12|18|df=y}}

| birth_place = Leicester, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1919|3|7|1880|12|18|df=y}}

| death_place = Norwich, Norfolk, England

| heightft =

| heightinch =

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| batting = Left-handed

| bowling = Slow left-arm orthodox

| role =

| club2 = Norfolk

| year2 = 1909–1912

| club1 = Leicestershire

| year1 = 1903–1905

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 37

| runs1 = 347

| bat avg1 = 9.13

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 32

| deliveries1 = 5,129

| wickets1 = 88

| bowl avg1 = 28.29

| fivefor1 = 4

| tenfor1 = 1

| best bowling1 = 6/85

| catches/stumpings1 = 10/–

| date = 9 August 2008

| source = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/27/27467/27467.html CricketArchive

}}

{{Infobox football biography

|position = Outside left

|years1 = 1899–1902

|clubs1 = Leicester Fosse

|caps1 = 34

|goals1 = 4

|years2 = 1902–1904

|clubs2 = Luton Town

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|years3 = 1904–1905

|clubs3 = Leicester Fosse

|caps3 = 30

|goals3 = 4

|years4 = 1905–1907

|clubs4 = Brighton & Hove Albion

|caps4 = 72

|goals4 = 7

|years5 =

|clubs5 = Norwich City

|caps5 =

|goals5 =

}}

Thomas Charlesworth Allsopp (18 December 1880 – 7 March 1919) was an English cricketer and footballer who played first-class cricket for Leicestershire County Cricket Club and the Marylebone Cricket Club.{{Cite web |url=http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/27/27467/f_Batting_by_Team.html |title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Thomas Allsopp |date=9 August 2008 |publisher=Cricket archive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018111314/http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/27/27467/f_Batting_by_Team.html |archive-date=18 October 2012 |url-status=dead |access-date=20 June 2018}} His highest score of 32 came when playing for Leicestershire in the match against Hampshire.{{Cite web |url=http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/6/6855.html |title=Leicestershire v Hampshire |date=9 August 2008 |publisher=Cricket archive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107010645/http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/6/6855.html |archive-date=7 November 2017 |url-status=dead |access-date=20 June 2018}} His best bowling of 6/85 came when playing for Leicestershire against London County.{{Cite web |url=http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/6/6459.html |title=London County v Leicestershire |date=9 August 2008 |publisher=Cricket archive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214134008/http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/6/6459.html |archive-date=14 December 2017 |url-status=dead |access-date=20 June 2018}}

He also played 27 Minor Counties Championship games for Norfolk.{{Cite web |url=http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/27/27467/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html |title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Thomas Allsopp (27) |date=9 August 2008 |publisher=Cricket archive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194745/http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/27/27467/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead |access-date=20 June 2018}}

Football career

Allsopp played as an outside left in the Football League for Leicester Fosse and in the Southern League for Brighton & Hove Albion, Luton Town and Norwich City.{{cite book |first1=Tim |last1=Carder |first2=Roger |last2=Harris |title=Albion A–Z: A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. |publisher=Goldstone Books |location=Hove |date=1997 |page=14 |isbn=978-0-9521337-1-1}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.footballandthefirstworldwar.org/thomas-charlesworth-allsopp-service-record/ |title=Thomas Charlesworth Allsopp – Service Record – Football and the First World War |access-date=20 June 2018}}{{Cite web |url=http://canaryseventyninety.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/norwich-city-player-index-tommy-allsopp.html |title=Norwich City Player Index – Tommy Allsopp |website=canaryseventyninety.blogspot.co.uk |access-date=3 October 2016 |url-access=subscription }}

Personal life

In May 1911, Allsopp took ownership of the Hero of Redan pub on Thorpe Road in Norwich.{{cite web | access-date=3 October 2016 | url=http://www.lcfc.com/news/article/leicester-fosse-and-the-first-world-war-part-24-2499337.aspx | title=Leicester Fosse And The First World War: Part 24 | last=Hutchinson | first=John | website=www.lcfc.com}} He served as a sergeant in the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) and the Labour Corps during the First World War. After returning home from the war, he fell victim to the 1918 flu pandemic and died in Norwich on 7 March 1919. He was buried with military honours in Earlham Road Cemetery in the city.{{Cite web|url=http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/views/derek-james/how_an_old_norwich_city_fc_postcard_reminds_us_of_brave_tommy_1_1687087|title=How an old Norwich City FC postcard reminds us of brave Tommy.|last=James|first=Derek|access-date=3 October 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2803028/ALLSOPP,%20THOMAS%20CHARLESWORTH|title=Casualty Details|first=Reading Room|last=Manchester|publisher=|access-date=3 October 2016}}