[4] At some point in the early 1890s, the teenager Beaty-Pownall arrived in Barcelona, probably due to work reasons, like so many other Britons who moved to the Catalan capital.

However, he did play on 12 March 1893, in the historic match between a blue and a red team, starting as a forward for the latter in a 1–2 loss.

[1] Beaty-Pownall appears in what is regarded to be the oldest photograph of a football team in Spain, which depicts these two sides before the match at Can Tunis.

He was four months shy of his 19th birthday and he can be seen seated, the second from the left, alongside fellow youngsters such as Higgins, Bell, and a 13-year-old boy Miguel Morris.

[2] Despite some encouraging first steps, this Society was never officially established and when its founder and captain James Reeves returned to the United Kingdom in the autumn of 1895, the club began to decline and disappeared around 1896.