Clopton Lloyd-Jones

Clopton Allen Lloyd-Jones (12 November 1858 – 7 March 1918) was an English businessman and amateur sportsman, best known for football and cricket. He played for the Clapham Rovers when they won the FA Cup in 1880 and was selected, but did not play, for Wales as an international.

He was born in Hanwood, Shropshire, the younger son of Charles Lloyd Jones (1828-1901), who was known as the squire of Hanwood, about three miles from Shrewsbury. Like his father, his name was not hyphenated on his birth certificate; while commonly named as Lloyd-Jones in newspaper reports, he was also at other times named as C.A.L. Jones, rarely Clopton Jones.

He studied at Trent College, where he was a boarder at the 1871 census, and was being reported as Lloyd-Jones by the time he left in 1875. He was one of two senior pupils who passed "Satisfied" at the Cambridge University Local Examinations of Christmas 1874 but he did not enter university.

Lloyd-Jones worked in London as an indigo broker (lodging in Hetherington Road, Clapham, in the 1881 census) but during 1884 returned to Shropshire and later moved into Shrewsbury where he set up as a commission agent, i.e. a bookmaker (1891, 1901 and 1911 census).

Lloyd-Jones married on 30 October 1894, at St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury, Sarah Emma Catherine (also known as Lily), daughter of Robert Everall, a Shrewsbury builder. The couple had four children who survived him. Lloyd-Jones died on 7 March 1918, aged 59, at his last home, Montreux, Belle Vue Gardens in Shrewsbury, after what was described as 'a long and painful illness', from cancer of the bladder. He was buried on 9 March in Shrewsbury’s General Cemetery in Longden Road where, more recently in 2002, the Football League's all-time leading goalscorer, Arthur Rowley, was also buried. His headstone, in section 147, bears the Italian motto Godi tu che vinci – a translation of this being "Enjoy, you who win".

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