Gerald Church | |
Fullname: | Gerald Church |
Birth Date: | 28 January 1928 |
Birth Place: | Calton, Scotland |
Death Place: | Winchester-on-the-Severn, Maryland, U.S. |
Position: | Left back |
Youthclubs1: | Glasgow University |
Years1: | 1955–1957 |
Clubs1: | Queen's Park |
Caps1: | 5 |
Goals1: | 0 |
Nationalyears1: | 1956 |
Nationalteam1: | Scotland Amateurs |
Nationalcaps1: | 1 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Gerald Church (28 January 1928 – 17 July 2021) was a Scottish amateur footballer who played as a left back in the Scottish League for Queen's Park.[1] [2] He was capped by Scotland at amateur level.[3]
Church attended St Aloysius' College and University of Glasgow Medical School.[4] Following two years in the Royal Army Medical Corps, he specialised in Internal Medicine and Cardiology.
Church emigrated to the United States in the late 1950s and from 1960 worked at local Annapolis hospitals, including Anne Arundel Medical Center and North Arundel Hospital. He was later made a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and received an award of appreciation from the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center for his service between 1966 and 2011.
Church was married with four children. He died at home in Winchester-on-the-Severn, on 17 July 2021, at the age of 93.