Charlie Adamson
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Charles Young Adamson (18 April 1875 – 17 September 1918)Minor Counties Championship match in 1895. He played for Durham until 1914.
Personal history
Adamson was born in
Little Grant, Wisconsin. The Adamson family were strongly connected to cricket, with John representing Durham, and Adamson's sons, Charles Lodge Adamson and John Alfred Adamson playing in the minor counties. Adamson was brother-in-law to Lewis Vaughan Lodge, who played international football for England.[3] Adamson set up in business, and ran a hotel in partnership with William Henry Wood and John Adamson, but the business was dissolved on 18 October 1917.[4]
During the First World War, Adamson was a captain (Quartermaster) in the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He was killed on 17 September 1918 during an assault on enemy trenches at the Fourth Battle of Doiran on the Macedonian front in the Kingdom of Greece. He is buried at Karasouli Military Cemetery in Thessaloniki regional unit.
Rugby career
Adamson came to note as a rugby player while representing
IRB rules; 149 by modern (2009) scoring rules. In the First Test, Adamson was placed at centre, alongside Gwyn Nicholls; but after the British team lost the game, team captain Matthew Mullineux
dropped himself from the team to bring Adamson into his position at half-back. This move is seen as the turning point in the tour, and the British team won the final three Tests, with Adamson scoring in all three victories.
On his return to Britain, Adamson continued playing rugby and during the 1901–02 season represented Bristol.[5]
Bibliography
- Griffiths, John (1990). British Lions. Swindon: Crowood Press. ISBN 1-85223-541-1.
References
- ^ Charles Adamson cricket career cricinfo.org
- ^ Charlie Adamson player profile Scrum.com
- ^ Charles Adamson player profile cricketarchive.com
- ^ The London Gazette 23 October 1917
- ^ Clifton Rugby Football Club History
