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English footballer

Fred Bartholomew
Personal information
Full name	Frederick Charles Bartholomew
Date of birth	3 January 1885
Place of birth	Reading, Berkshire, England
Date of death	1979 (aged 93–94)
Position(s)	Utility player
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
0000–1904	Reading Biscuits
1904–1923	Reading	164	(9)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Frederick Charles Bartholomew (3 January 1885 – 1979) was an English professional footballer who made over 160 appearances in the Southern and Football Leagues for Reading. He served as a player, coach and groundsman for 53 years and is a member of the club's Hall of Fame. A utility player, his primary positions were centre half or full back.

Personal life

Bartholomew served as a colour sergeant with the Middlesex Regiment's 1st Football Battalion during the First World War. After retiring from football in 1923, he spent three years on the coaching staff at Reading and then became groundsman at Elm Park until his retirement in 1957.

Honours

Reading

Southern League Second Division: 1910–11

Individual

Reading Hall of Fame

References

^ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 19. ISBN 978-1905891610.
"Hall of Fame". Star. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
^ "Reading 1904–05". www.royalsrecord.co.uk. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
^ Riddoch, Andrew; Kemp, David (2010). When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War. Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset: Haynes Publishing. p. 260. ISBN 978-0857330772.
"Bartholomew Fred Reading 1907". Vintage Footballers. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
^ Low, Jonathan (8 April 2017). "Star induct 13 new names into Reading FC's Hall of Fame". getreading. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
"Frederick Bartholomew | Service Record". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
"Reading heroes to join Star Hall of Fame!". www.readingfc.co.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2020.

External links

Fred Bartholomew on Lives of the First World War

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