Leon Boullemier
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1874 | ||
| Place of birth | Stoke, England | ||
| Date of death | 21 April 1954 (aged 79) | ||
| Place of death | Northampton, England | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1892–1893 | Stoke | 0 | (0) |
| 1893–1894 | Burslem Port Vale | 0 | (0) |
| 1895 | 3 | (0) | |
| 1895–1897 | Lincoln City | 48 | (0) |
| 1897–1898 | Reading | ||
| 1898–1899 | Brighton United | ||
| – | Northampton Town | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Leon Antonin L. Boullemier (1874 – 21 April 1954), also known as Leon or Leo Bullimer, was an English footballer who made 48 appearances in the Football League playing as a goalkeeper for Lincoln City. He also played in the Southern League for Reading and Brighton United, and went on to referee at senior level. He acted as scorer for Northamptonshire County Cricket Club for more than 50 years.
Boullemier's parents, ceramic artist Antonin Boullemier, who had trained at the Sèvres porcelain factory, and his wife Léonie Michel, daughter of a physician to Emperor Napoleon III, left France for England during the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. Antonin took up employment as a painter at Minton's ceramics factory in the city of Stoke, Staffordshire, where Boullemier, their third child, and second son, was born. His birth was registered in the third quarter of 1874. His younger brother Lucien played football professionally before making a success in his father's profession.
From the late 1890s onwards, Boullemier used an anglicised version of his surname. In his later football career, he was known as Leon Bullimer, and in context of Northamptonshire cricket, he was Leo Bullimer. His son Leonard, also known as Leo, played Minor Counties cricket for Northamptonshire second eleven.
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