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Claude Henry Rigby (9 January 1878 – 7 December 1924) was a pharmacist, and a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and with Richmond Football Club in the VFA.[1]

Family

The son of Dr. George Owen Rigby (1916),[2] and Frances Maria Rigby (1841-1926), née English,[3] Claude Henry Rigby was born at Kyneton, Victoria on 9 January 1878. He married Isabella Ellen Megson (1881-1952) in 1908.[4]

Football

He was a "fleet-footed, lightly framed wingman".[5][6]

Carlton (VFL)

Recruited from Kyneton, he played 29 games for Carlton Football Club over the three seasons, 1900 to 1902.

In 1900 he played for a VFL intra-state team, against a combined Ballarat Association team.[7]

He played his last game for Carlton against Fitzroy on 7 June 1902 (round 6); and, a week later, he turned out for Kyneton Collegians in the Kyneton District Football Association.[8]

Collingwood Juniors Football Club (VJFA)

In 1904 he was granted a clearance from both the Kyneton Football Club and Carlton to Collingwood Juniors Football Club in the Victorian Junior Football Association.[9][10]

Richmond (VFA)

Granted a clearance from Carlton in 1905,[11] he played for the Richmond Football Club in 1905 and 1906;[12][13] and, playing on the wing, was a member of the 1905 Richmond (VFA) premiership team.[14]

Melbourne (VFL)

He played 27 games for the Melbourne Football Club in two seasons, 1907 and 1908.

Death

A qualified pharmacist,[15] and although in poor health, Rigby died unexpectedly — "[as] the result of a severe attack of ptomaine poisoning"[16] — at his U.F.S. dispensary in Queens Parade, Clifton Hill, Victoria, on 7 December 1924.[17]

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