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Spencer Hayman

Spencer Hayman

Australian rules footballer


Spencer Lewis Hayman (6 January 1885 – 14 September 1946) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

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Family

The son of Henry Hunt Hayman (1855–1925),[2] and Rachel Hayman (−1913), née Solomon,[3][4] Spencer Lewis Hayman was born in Petersham, New South Wales on 6 January 1885.[5]

He married Agnes Lindsay Paltridge (1887–1962) on 22 January 1913.[6]

One of their children, Captain Peter Spencer Hayman (1916–1942), served in the Second AIF with the 2nd/24th Infantry, was awarded the Military Cross in 1941,[7] and was killed in action, in Libya, on 11 July 1942.[8][9]

Education

He attended Scotch College, Melbourne for four years (1897 to 1900), and played in the school's 1900 premiership-winning First XVIII.[10]

Football

North Adelaide (SAFA)

He was cleared from Melbourne to the North Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian Football Association (SAFA) in April 1910.[11]

Death

He died in Bendigo, Victoria, on 14 September 1946.[12][13]


Notes

References

  • Scotch's first 66 VFL/AFL Players, Great Scot, (September 2010), Scotch College, Melbourne.
  • Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.), (Seaford), BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.

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