Aside from his clubs, he played in representative matches for Surrey county, London, The South v The North and The Rest v England.
[1] He entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1878 and played in their football teams also, during a period that covered his F.A.
In 1884 he was awarded the Bronze Medal of the Royal Humane Society after saving a fellow soldier from drowning in the Shaban Cataract of the Nile.
[4] In 1885 he received a second award of the same medal for rescuing a Sudanese sailor from the same river near El Sabon.
In fact, he died of blood poisoning and kidney failure after seven weeks' illness with pneumonia which developed after a cold he suffered when playing golf.