Arthur Davidson (footballer, born 1875)

Arthur Irving Davidson (28 August 1875 – 5 September 1961) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Arthur Davidson
Personal information
Full name Arthur Irving Davidson
Date of birth (1875-08-28)28 August 1875
Place of birth Carlton, Victoria[1]
Date of death 5 September 1961(1961-09-05) (aged 86)
Place of death Heidelberg, Victoria
Original team(s) Ormond College[2]
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1898 Fitzroy 2 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1898.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Davidson played for Fitzroy while studying to become a clergyman at Ormond College in the University of Melbourne.

He served as a chaplain in World War I[3] and later became moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Victoria.[4]

He died at the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital in 1961.[5]

Notes
  1. "Family Notices". The Argus (9, 113). Victoria, Australia. 30 August 1875. p. 1.
  2. "WEEKLY JOTTINGS". The Australasian. LXIV (1676). Victoria, Australia. 14 May 1898. p. 23.
  3. "Discovering Anzacs: Arthur Irving Davidson". National Archives of Australia.
  4. "Praise for Football". Weekly Times (3806). Victoria, Australia. 27 May 1942. p. 29.
  5. "Deaths". The Age (33, 178). Victoria, Australia. 6 September 1961. p. 21.
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