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Gerald Church
Personal information
Full name Gerald Church[1]
Date of birth (1928-01-28)28 January 1928
Place of birth Calton, Scotland
Date of death 17 July 2021(2021-07-17) (aged 93)[2]
Place of death Winchester-on-the-Severn, Maryland, U.S.[2]
Position(s) Left back
Youth career
Glasgow University
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1955–1957 Queen's Park 5 (0)
International career
1956 Scotland Amateurs 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gerald Church (28 January 1928 – 17 July 2021) was a Scottish amateur footballer who played as a left back in the Scottish League for Queen's Park.[1][3] He was capped by Scotland at amateur level.[4]

Life and career

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Church attended St Aloysius' College and University of Glasgow Medical School.[2] Following two years in the Royal Army Medical Corps, he specialised in Internal Medicine and Cardiology.[2]

Church emigrated to the United States in the late 1950s and from 1960 worked at local Annapolis hospitals, including Anne Arundel Medical Center and North Arundel Hospital.[2] He was later made a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and received an award of appreciation from the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center for his service between 1966 and 2011.[2]

Church was married with four children. He died at home in Winchester-on-the-Severn, on 17 July 2021, at the age of 93.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Church, Gerald". QPFC.com – A Historical Queen's Park FC Website. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Dr. Gerard "Gerry" Church obituary". Legacy. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  3. ^ Hosie, Rab. "Scottish League appearance records – C". Scottish Football Historical Archive. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  4. ^ McColl, Brian; Gorman, Douglas; Campbell, George. "Forgotten Glories – British Amateur Internationals 1901–1974" (PDF). p. 325. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.