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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Llewelyn Kenrick, Steve Evans, Terry Owen, Karl Robinson, Grenville Millington, George Beare, Fred Eyre, William Davies, Stuart Mason, Seth Powell, William Williams, Jack Hallam, Albert Bloxham, Nigel Edwards, Stan Palk, Ian Howat, Peter Henderson, Mel Charles, John Jones, Trevor Storton, Cliff Sear, Bob Delgado, Ian Moir, Keith Webber, Ray Jones, Trevor Phillips, Brian Taylor, Fred Morris, Brynley Jones, Alan Boswell, Paul Raynor, Paul Needham, Gary Simpson, Chris Malkin, Howard Matthews, George Davies, Derek Brownbill, Brian Woodall, Syd Goodfellow, George Antonio, Dave Pountney, Isaac Lea, Graham Williams, Stuart Sharrat, Fred Bennett, Dave Young, George Evans, William Bossons, Frank Williams, Robert William Matthews, Jack Hampson, Billy Twemlow, Cecil Smith, Neil McAdam, William Newton, Billy McCartney, Ivor Griffiths. Excerpt: Samuel Llewelyn Kenrick (1847 - 29 May 1933) was a Welsh solicitor who became the founder of the Football Association of Wales and organised the first Welsh international football match against Scotland in 1876. As such he became the "father of Welsh football." Kenrick was born into the land-owning, industrialist Kenrick dynasty of Wynn Hall, Ruabon, Wales, the son of William Kenrick (1798-1865) who had founded the Wynn Hall Colliery, and a descendant of the Wynn family. After attending Ruabon Grammar School, Kenrick trained as a solicitor (admitted 1871) and practiced at Ruabon. Two of his cousins, Harriet and Florence Kenrick, were the first and second wives of the politician Joseph Chamberlain. Kenrick married a daughter of the Rev A L Taylor, headmaster of Ruabon Grammar School, although they had no children. His earliest football appearances were in England when he played for Priorslee at Shifnal, Shropshire. In 1872, he assisted brothers David and George Thomson in amalgamating the ...
