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Henry Almond

Personal information
Full name	Henry John Almond
Date of birth	1850
Place of birth	Westminster, England
Date of death	1910
Place of death	At Sea, Unknown
Playing position	Centre-forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1863–1868	Charterhouse School
1868–1869	Stoke City
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Henry Almond (1850 — 1910) helped form Stoke (City) Football Club in 1868. The son of William Almond of Westminster, he played for his ‘House’ team, Gownboys, at Charterhouse School and for the school first XI (Old Carthusians ) in season 1867–68. During his last year at Charterhouse, he assisted in the formation of the Stoke (City) club.

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After ending his educational studies and skippering Stoke in their first few games (he scored the first ever Stoke goal against E W May’s 15 in a friendly on 17 October 1868), Almond completely forgot about football. He became a very successful Civil Engineer, going abroad to work in Costa Rica for the Venezuela-based La Guayra and Caracus Railway Company. A fairly young death for Henry at the age of 60.

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