Sir Albert Chadwick
Personal information
Full name Sir Albert Edward Chadwick
Date of birth (1897-11-15)15 November 1897
Place of birth Beechworth, Victoria
Date of death 27 October 1983(1983-10-27) (aged 85)
Place of death Toorak, Victoria
Height 184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 86 kg (190 lb)
Position(s) Centre half-back
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1919 Prahran (VFA) 12 (8)
1920–1928 Melbourne (VFL) 141 (45)
1929 Hawthorn (VFL) 017 (8)
Total 170 (61)
Representative team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
Victoria 18 (7)
Coaching career3
Years Club Games (W–L–D)
1925–1927 Melbourne 58 (42–15–1)
1929 Hawthorn 18 (4–14–0)
Total 76 (46–29–1)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1929.
3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1929.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Sir Albert Edward Chadwick, CMG, MSM (15 November 1897 – 27 October 1983) was an Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football League (VFL).

Early life

The son of Andrew Chadwick (1854-1906),[1][2] and Georgina Ann Chadwick (1867-1948), née Prater,[3] Albert Edward Chadwick was born at Beechworth, Victoria, on 15 November 1897.

He married Thelma Marea Crawley (1899-1979) in 1924. Their son, Robert Edward Chadwick (1927-1992) also played for the Melbourne First XVIII.

Education

He was educated at Tungamah State Primary School (No.2225).

Football

A tough centre half-back who ran hard and straight, he played the majority of his career with Melbourne Football Club, one season with the Prahran Football Club, and one season for Hawthorn Football Club.

Prahran (VFA)

Recruited by Prahran after a chance encounter with the Club's secretary,[4] he made his debut, against North Melbourne, on 24 May 1919, and went on to play in 12 consecutive games for the Prahran First XVIII in 1919.

Melbourne (VFL)

Cleared from Prahran in 1920.[5]

He was runner-up to Edward "Carji" Greeves in the inaugural Brownlow Medal in 1924: with one vote available per home-and-away game, and with Greeves and Chadwick both missing games when playing inter-state football for Victoria, Greeves scored seven votes (i.e., best-on-ground in seven matches) and Chadwick six.[6][7]

Hawthorn (VFL)

He played for the Hawthorn First XVIII in 17 games (scoring 8 goals) in 1929.

Military service

Having added a year to his age, Chadwick enlisted in the First AIF on 12 February 1916, and went on to serve overseas with the Australian Flying Corps. He was Mentioned in Dispatches in January 1919.[8] He returned to Australia on the HMAT Port Sydney in April 1919,[9] and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal in 1919.[10]

During World War II, Chadwick served in the Royal Australian Air Force. He was discharged on 6 July 1945 in the rank of Wing Commander,[11] having held the acting rank of Group Captain while serving as the RAAF's Director of Recruiting, a position which he held from 1942.[12]

After Football

Chadwick was Chairman of the Gas and Fuel Corporation of Victoria, the Melbourne Cricket Club president from 1965 to 1979, and the Melbourne Football Club president from 1950 to 1962.[13]

Highly successful in business, he was appointed a Companion in the Order of St Michael and St George on 1 January 1967,[14][15][16] and knighted on 1 January 1974.[17][18]

Death

He died at his home in Toorak, Victoria on 27 October 1983[19] and was cremated at Springvale Botanical Cemetery.[20]

Australian Football Hall of Fame

In 1995, Chadwick was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

See also

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Funeral Notices: Chadwick, (Friday, 2 November 1906), p.1.
  2. ^ Tungamah, The Benalla Standard, (Tuesday, 13 November 1906), p.4.
  3. ^ Deaths: Chadwick, (Saturday, 24 January 1948), p.2.
  4. ^ Chadwick, Bert, "My Novel Start at Football, The Sporting Globe, (Saturday, 7 September 1935), pp.7, 8.
  5. ^ At the time, Prahran Football Club was in Melbourne's "district": see 'Old Boy', "Football", The Argus, (Friday, 16 May 1919), p.8.
  6. ^ Best and Fairest Player: Greeves (Geelong) Wins Award, The Argus, (Thursday, 18 September 1924), p.168.
  7. ^ 'Forward', "Football: Brownlow Memorial Medal: Awarded to C. Greeves (Geelong), 'Best and Fairest Player' ", The Age, (Thursday, 18 September 1924), p.12.
  8. ^ (Mentioned in Dispatches), 3rd Military District: No.281 Sergeant A. E. Chadwick, Australian Flying Corps, Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No.61, (23 May 1919), p.895.
  9. ^ Soldiers Returning: Light Horse and Air Men: List on Port Sydney, The Ballarat Star, (Friday, 28 March 1919), p.2.
  10. ^ Awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, 3rd Military District: No.281 Sergeant-Mechanic Albert Edward Chadwick, Australian Flying Corps, Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No.113, (6 October 1919), p.1465.
  11. ^ World War Two Nominal Roll.
  12. ^ Fahey, 2007.
  13. ^ Piesse (1993), p.49.
  14. ^ Award no.1066696.
  15. ^ The New Year Honours: The Commonwealth and State List in Full, The Canberra Times, (Monday, 2 January 1967), p.6.
  16. ^ Knighthoods for 3 Victorians, The Age, (Monday, 2 January 1967), p.1.
  17. ^ Award no.1083204.
  18. ^ Victoria stays with January 1 honours, The Canberra Times, (Tuesday, 1 January 1974), p.1.
  19. ^ Deaths: Chadwick, The Age, (Friday, 28 October 1983), p.25.
  20. ^ "Albert Edward Chadwick". Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust.

References

External links

Melbourne Football Club 1926 VFL premiers
Melbourne Football Club · Team of the Century
Captains of the Melbourne Football Club
Captains of the Hawthorn Football Club
Coaches of the Melbourne Football Club
Coaches of the Hawthorn Football Club
Victorian squad – 1924 Interstate Carnival
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