Jack Borthwick (footballer, born 1886)

Jack Borthwick
Personal information
Full name	John James Blacklaw Borthwick
Date of birth	15 February 1886
Place of birth	Leith, Scotland
Date of death	1942 (aged 55–56)
Position(s)	Centre half
Youth career
	Royal Oak
	Edinburgh Clifton
	Wemyss Violet
	Lochgelly United
Senior career*
Years	Team
1907–1908	Hibernian
1908–1911	Everton
1911–1915	Millwall Athletic
	East Fife
	Cowdenbeath
	Hibernian
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John James Blacklaw "Jack" Borthwick (15 February 1886–1942) was a Scottish professional football centre half who played in the Football League for Everton.^[1] He also played in the Scottish League for Hibernian.^[2]

Personal life

Borthwick served as a private with the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) during the First World War and was wounded in the head at Delville Wood in 1916.^[3] He described his injuries in a letter to Bert Lipsham: "my head has been trepanned, as the skull was knocked in. The cut extends from nearly the top of my head down to my eyebrow. It was a near thing of losing my right eye".^[4]

^ ^a ^b Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 32. ISBN 190589161X.
^ "Hibernian Player John Borthwick Details". www.fitbastats.com. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
^ Riddoch, Andrew; Kemp, David (2010). When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War. Sparkford, Yeovil, Somerset: Haynes Publishing. pp. 124–125. ISBN 978-0857330772.
^ Riddoch & Kemp 2010, p. 146.

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