Captain CHW Maunsell
Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 September 2011 16:54 Written by Bryn Jones Sunday, 10 April 2011 08:16
Captain Charles H W Maunsell was club captain in 1893 and 1894, the same years that his wife was the club's first lady captain. He was born at Monasterion, Kildain in Ireland in 1859.
In the 1892 Directory of Beverley Maunsell Captain Maunsell is described as adjutant 2nd Volunteer Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, New Walk. In the census of the previous year he was living at Stephenson Lane on New Walk with his wife Amy and young son, Sydney who had been born in 1889. Charles had marrried Amy Charlotte Mathey in 1885 in Eastbourne, Sussex. In 1881, he lodged at a house in Paddington, London with his father?) Francis and was then a 2nd lieutenant. In 1871 he was a pupil at the Northern Church of England School in Poulton, Lancashire. In 1900 the London Gazette reported his appointment (with the rank of major) as adjutant of the Royal Eastern Reserve Regiment.
Charles died in Essex in 1927 and lived there with his wife and only son. Amy died in 1923.
Sydnay was a Captain in the Royal Army Service Corps during WW1. He survived the war and lived until 1959 initally in London but for the last few decades in Bath.