Bert Lawrence (footballer)

Robert Gribbon Lawrence (7 January 1902 – 1 August 1975) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the South Melbourne Football Club and Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Bert Lawrence
Personal information
Full name Robert Gribbon Lawrence
Date of birth (1902-01-07)7 January 1902
Place of birth South Melbourne, Victoria
Date of death 1 August 1975(1975-08-01) (aged 73)
Place of death Adelaide, South Australia
Original team(s) North United
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1921, 1925 South Melbourne 07 (8)
1926 Melbourne 03 (0)
Total 10 (8)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1926.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The son of William Henry Lawrence (1863-1943),[2] and Alice Mary Lawrence (1861-1937), née Sutcliffe,[3] Robert Gribbon Lawrence was born at South Melbourne, Victoria on 7 January 1902.[4]

He married Lucy Evelyn Butlin on 24 March 1928.[5] One of their children, Robert John Lawrence, was South Australia's Rhodes Scholar in 1953.[6][7]

Football

South Melbourne (VFL)

In May 1921 he was grant a permit from "Sydney to South Melbourne".[8]

Melbourne (VFL)

He was cleared from South Melbourne to Melbourne on 28 April 1926.[9]

South Gambier (SEFA)

He was cleared from Melbourne to "South Australia" on 20 April 1927,[10] and on 25 April 1927 was elected captain of the South Gambier Football Club in the South Eastern Football Association. The team went on to win the 1927 Premiership.[11] He played with the club for eight seasons: 1927 to 1934.

Transferred to Adelaide with his employment -- he had worked for eight years as a teller at the Mount Gambier Branch of the Commonwealth Bank[12] -- he left the South Gambier club at the end of the 1934 season.[13]

Notes
  1. Holmesby & Main (2009), p.475.
  2. Deaths: Lawrence, The Age, (Friday, 12 February 1943), p.5.
  3. Deaths: Lawrence, The Argus, (Monday, 30 August 1937), p.1.
  4. Births: Lawrence, The Argus, (Friday, 10 January 1902), p.1.
  5. Orange Blossom: Lawrence—Butlin, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 14 April 1928), p.3.
  6. SA's 1953 Rhodes Scholar, The (Adelaide) News, (Wednesday, 17 December 1952), p.1.
  7. Rhodes Scholar was Born in Mount Gambier, The Border Watch, (Saturday, 20 December 1952), p.1.
  8. Football: Permits Granted, The Argus, (Saturday, 7 May 1921), p.20.
  9. Football: Permit Applications, The Argus, (Thursday, 29 April 1926), p.18.
  10. Football: League Permits, The Argus, (Thursday, 21 April 1927), p.6.
  11. South win Premiership in Third Quarter of Splendid Game: Decisive Victory, The Border Watch, (Saturday, 1 October 1927), p.1.
  12. Personal, The Adelaide) Chronicle, (Thursday, 17 January 1935), p.13.
  13. Valedictory: Mr. R. G. Lawrence, The Border Watch, (Thursday, 3 January 1935), p.3.

References
  • 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.
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