Albert Bloxham

Who was Albert Bloxham?

Albert Bloxham was an English professional footballer who scored 13 goals in 80 appearances in the Football League playing for Birmingham, Chesterfield and Millwall. He played as an outside right.

Bloxham was born in Solihull, then part of Warwickshire. He began his football career with Overton-on-Dee while working as an office clerk, then played for Oswestry Town and for Torquay United in the 1926–27 season when they won the Southern League title. Bloxham himself moved on to First Division club Birmingham in March 1927. He made his Football League debut on 8 October 1927, deputising for Benny Bond in a home game against Sheffield Wednesday which Birmingham won 3–2. He scored in the next game, but Bond then returned to the starting eleven.

Unable to gain a regular first-team place, he moved on to Rhyl Athletic, then back to the Football League for a few months with Chesterfield, and then to Scotland where he spent the 1928–29 season with Raith Rovers as they were relegated from the First Division of the Scottish Football League.