Harry Rigby (footballer) explained

Harry Rigby
Fullname:Claude Henry Rigby
Birth Date:9 January 1878
Birth Place:Kyneton, Victoria
Death Place:Clifton Hill, Victoria
Statsend:1908
Years1:1900–1902
Club1:Carlton (VFL)
Games Goals1:29 (2)
Years2:1904
Club2:Collingwood Juniors (VJFA)
Years3:1905–1906
Club3:Richmond (VFA)
Years4:1907–1908
Club4:Melbourne (VFL)
Games Goals4:27 (0)
Games Goalstotal:56 (2)

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]

Family

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]

Football

He was a "fleet-footed, lightly framed wingman".[5] [6]

Carlton (VFL)

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]

Collingwood Juniors Football Club (VJFA)

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]

Richmond (VFA)

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]

Melbourne (VFL)

He played 27 games for the Melbourne Football Club in two seasons, 1907 and 1908.

Death

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Holmesby & Main (2009), p.705.
  2. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/89390774 Sad Motor Fatality, The Riverina Herald, (Tuesday, 29 August 1916), p.3
  3. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/87932511Marriages, The Bendigo Advertiser, (Thursday, 25 May 1865), p.2
  4. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206218556 Deaths: Rigby, The Age, (Saturday, 5 July 1952), p.13.
  5. Blueseum.
  6. Despite several assertions to that effect (e.g., The (Melbourne) Herald, 8 December 1924, p.2.) and, although "fleet of foot", Claude Henry Rigby is not the Rigby that won the 1909 Stawell Gift; that was Harold Franklin Rigby of Burnie, Tasmania (The Stawell Gift: Burnie Man's Fine Win, The North Western Advocate and the Emu Bay Times, (Saturday, 17 April 1909), p.3.)
  7. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206970706 Football, The Ballarat Star, (Saturday, 14 July 1900), p.8
  8. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/199394806 Country Football, The Age, (Tuesday, 17 June 1902), p.7.
  9. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/201654693 Football, The Age, (Thursday, 9 June 1904), p.8
  10. https://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/collingwood-juniors-football-club Collingwood Juniors Football Club, Collingwood Forever.
  11. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9891769 The Football Season, The Argus, (Thursday, 4 May 1905), p.8.
  12. Demonwiki.
  13. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9891587 Football, The Argus, (Tuesday, 25 April 1905), p.7.
  14. Hogan (1996), p.284.
  15. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/155097911 Pharmacy Board Examinations, The Age, (Thursday, 20 June 1918), p.7.
  16. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/243866762 Noted Athlete: Death of Harry Rigby, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Monday, 8 December 1924), p.2.
  17. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/155544487 Deaths: Rigby, The Age, (Monday, 8 December 1924), p.1.

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