Segar Bastard

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Segar Bastard
Personal information
Full name Segar Richard Bastard
Date of birth 25 January 1854
Place of birth Chigwell, England
Date of death 20 March 1921 (age 67)
Place of death Epsom, Surrey, England
Position(s) Outside right/Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1873–1887 Upton Park
Trojans
Leyton
International career
1880 England 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Segar Richard Bastard[1] (25 January 1854 – 20 March 1921) was an English amateur association football player and referee born in Chigwell, Essex.[2] He played football on an amateur basis for three clubs as well as playing for England once. He was also an international referee and was held in high regard throughout English football. Bastard also played county cricket for Essex County Cricket Club and Marylebone Cricket Club and was a solicitor by profession.

Football

Bastard grew up in Bow, London, and played for Upton Park between 1873 and 1887. He also played for Trojans and Leyton.[3] and occasionally played as a guest player for Corinthians. Like many of his contemporaries, Bastard was a player and a referee—unlike modern referees, who are neutral and have no playing connections.

1878 FA Cup Final between Wanderers and Royal Engineers at The Oval.[4] He also refereed England's first match against Wales at the same venue on 18 January 1879.[5] In his role as a referee, Bastard was well-respected by the fans, players and his fellow referees.[6] After refereeing the 1878 FA Cup final, he was referred to as a "knight of the whistle".[7]

Bastard's debut as an international player came on 13 March 1880, when he played for England as an

outside right against Scotland at The Oval, in which Scotland won the match 5–4.[5] That match was his only international appearance for England.[8] Between 1877 and 1883, Bastard was also a member of one of The Football Association's committees.[7]

Cricket

Bastard also played

king pair after he was caught out in his second innings.[12]

After that, Bastard did not play for Essex for three years. He was recalled in 1885 to play against

County Ground, Leyton. In his first innings, he was nine not out, and in his final innings, he was out for a duck.[14]

In popular culture

In English football culture there is a popular belief that because of his name, Bastard was the inspiration behind the

bastard in the black?", which is sung to the tune of "Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer". The chant is usually aimed by English football fans towards football referees.[15] It is unlikely, however, that Bastard was the inspiration for the chant; the colour of the clothing he wore while refereeing was not documented, and football chants did not include verbal aggression towards officials until the 1960s, long after Bastard had died.[16][17]

Personal life

Bastard was born in Chigwell to Richard Bastard and Josephine Green.[2] His family were working class; his father was a hop merchant by trade.[18] Bastard's family initially ran a merchants shop and drapers in Exeter called Wholesale Linen-Drapers and Hop-Merchants until 1870, when it was dissolved by mutual consent of the family members. A law firm named Segar Bastard & Company was created as a result of Bastard's family ceasing to run the drapers and merchants shop, and Bastard trained and later practised as a solicitor.[3][19] One of his high-profile clients was Ashanti Goldfields Corporation.[20] Bastard was also on the boards of a number of mining companies; he was listed as a director of Escurial Copper Mines Limited and Tarkwa Main Reef Limited, while also serving as the chairman of Black Eagle Gold Mining Company Limited and Wassan Extended Gold Mines Limited.[21] In June 1884, Bastard married Gertrude Littlewood Garrett in West Ham; they had a daughter named Florence Garrett Bastard.[22]

Bastard was noted for gambling; he was also a fan of horse racing and is one of the first footballers and referees known to have owned a race horse.

heart attack at Epsom railway station in Surrey. In his will, Bastard left £11,000 (approximately £519,200 in 2021) to his wife.[8][22]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Some historical texts refer to him as Segal Bastard but census records indicate his first name was spelt with an "r". Reference: "1881 census search". Retrieved 16 January 2006.
  2. ^ a b "Family for Segar Richard Bastard". Community Trees. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  3. ^ a b Peter Hamersley. "Upton Park Football Club – Players: 1866 to 1887". East of London Family History Society. Archived from the original on 3 July 2007.
  4. ^
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  5. ^ a b Alan Brown. "England: 1872–1880 matches". RSSSF. Retrieved 16 January 2006.
  6. ISBN 978-1-86105-292-6
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  7. ^ a b "Clapton v London APSA" (PDF). Clapton FC. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  8. ^ a b "England's Players – Bach to Byrne". England Football Online. Retrieved 16 January 2006.
  9. ^ "Segar Bastard". Cricket Archive. 20 March 1921. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  10. ^ "Essex v Marylebone Cricket Club". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  11. ^ "Essex v Hertfordshire". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  12. ^ "Suffolk v Essex". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  13. ^ "Northamptonshire v Essex". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  14. ^ "Suffolk v Essex". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  15. ^ "Funny Football Player Names". Soccerlens. 13 December 2008. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  16. ^ "Right up the sausage roll". Chronicle Live. 14 September 2004. Archived from the original on 3 March 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  17. ISBN 978-1-84765-905-7
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  18. ^ "3004A". National Archives. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  19. ^ "966" (PDF). The London Gazette. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  20. ^ Skinner, Walter (1919). The Mining Manual and Mining Year Book. Financial Times. p. 610.
  21. ^ Skinner, W.R. (1909). Mining Yearbook. University of North Carolina. p. 1085.
  22. ^ a b "Segar Bastard". England Football Online. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
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