Morton Peto Betts (1847 - 1914)

Born 30 Aug 1847 in Bloomsbury, London, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Jane Bouch — married about May 1879 (to about 1890) in Bromley, Kent, England

Husband of Jane Eva Morgan — married about Aug 1901 in Croydon, Surrey, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 19 Apr 1914 at age 66 in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

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Biography

Morton ‘Monty’ Peto Betts was the third of five children born to Edward Ladd Betts, a Victorian Civil Engineer, and Ann Peto the sister of the railway entrepreneur Samuel Morton Peto. Peto and Betts was a notable civil engineering and railway company operating around the world.

Monty was sent to Harrow School where he excelled at both cricket and football. He later would turn out for Old Harrovians as well as Wanderers.

He appeared and scored the only goal in the first-ever FA Cup final for Wanderers under the pseudonym AH Chequer - he had played for another team in an earlier round and was ‘cup-tied’. He was also capped for England against Scotland in 1877.

Betts was on the FA Committee from 1870-72 and 1881-90 and served as vice-president in 1890-91, as well as refereeing many games in later years.

He also played cricket at county level appearing for Middlesex and Kent in 1872 and again for Kent in 1881. From 1887 until 1890 he was Secretary to the Essex County Cricket Club.

After his first wife died in 1890 he remarried in 1901 and spent his last years in the south of France, dying at his villa in Mentone just before the outbreak of the First World War.

Marriage to Jane Eva Morgan abt Aug 1901. Croydon, Surrey, England. ^{[1] [2]}

Sources

1. ↑ Volume: 2A; Page number: 656; Line Number: 339; Record set: England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005; Subcategory: Civil Marriage & Divorce; Category: Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers); Collections from: United Kingdom, England; REF http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=BMD/M/1901/3/AZ/000032/339
2. ↑ Volume: 2A; Page number: 656; Line Number: 38; Record set: England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005; Subcategory: Civil Marriage & Divorce; Category: Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers); Collections from: United Kingdom, England; REF http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=BMD/M/1901/3/AZ/000267/038

• England & Wales General Register Office, GRO Online Index - Birth (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content : accessed 16 May 2020), database entry for BETTS, MORTON PETO (Mother's maiden PETO), GRO Reference: 1847 D Quarter in SAINT PANCRAS Volume 01 Page 343
• "Marriage Entry" (https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=quwpk449Qv7QuyQ5fxDsNw&scan=1) FreeBMD.org; database online. Citing: Morton Peto Betts and Jane Bouch, Marriages 1879 June Quarter Bromley district Vol: 2a Page: 529 (accessed 16 May 2020
• Margaret Lowther Bouch "Recollections" 1950, privately distributed among her descendants.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Betts
• http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/9731.html