Wilfred Pallott
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Born |
5 November 1884 Cardiff, Wales | |||||||||||||
| Died |
7 November 1957 (aged 73) St. Brides-super-Ely, Wales | |||||||||||||
| Senior career | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | |||||||||||||
| 1908 | Whitchurch | |||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | |||||||||||
| 1908 | Wales | 11 | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Wilfred James Pallot (5 November 1884 – 17 November 1957)[1] was a field hockey player from Wales, who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics who won the bronze medal as a member of the Welsh team.[2]
Biography
Pallott was born in Cardiff, a son of a Jersey mariner who died at sea in 1896, when he was 11-years-old.[3]
With only six teams participating in the field hockey tournament at the 1908 Olympic Games in London, he represented Wales under the Great British flag, where the team were awarded a bronze medal despite Wales only playing in and losing one match.[4]
He played club hockey for Whitchurch Hockey Club and South Wales at representative level.[5]
By trade, Pallott was an accountant. From 1928 to his death in 1957 he was a senior partner with Richard Leyshon & Co. in Cardiff.[3]
References
- ^ England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: Wilfred James Pallot; Oct-Nov-Dec quarter 1884; District: Cardiff; Volume: 11a; Page: 324.
- ^ "profile". Database Olympics. Archived from the original on 9 October 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ a b "Wilfred Pallott". Olympedia. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ^ Wallechinsky, David (2000). The complete book of the Summer Olympics – Sydney 2000 edition. Aurum Press Ltd. pp. 469–470. ISBN 1-85410-692-9.
- ^ "Hockey". North Wales Weekly News. 31 January 1908. Retrieved 8 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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