Harry_Rigby_(footballer)
Harry Rigby (footballer)
Australian rules footballer
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]
| Harry Rigby | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Claude Henry Rigby | ||
| Date of birth | (1878-01-09)9 January 1878 | ||
| Place of birth | Kyneton, Victoria | ||
| Date of death | 7 December 1924(1924-12-07) (aged 46) | ||
| Place of death | Clifton Hill, Victoria | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1900–1902 | Carlton (VFL) | 29 (2) | |
| 1904 | Collingwood Juniors (VJFA) | ||
| 1905–1906 | Richmond (VFA) | ||
| 1907–1908 | Melbourne (VFL) | 27 (0) | |
| Total | 56 (2) | ||
|
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1908. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
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]
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.
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]
- Holmesby & Main (2009), p.705.
- Blueseum.
- 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.)
- Demonwiki.
- Hogan (1996), p.284.
- Hogan P: The Tigers Of Old, Richmond FC, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1
- Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
