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Inducted in 1993 as a member of the 1936 Great Britain
Olympic Championship team. Right-winger
Edgar Brenchley was born February 10th, 1912 in Sittingbourne
Kent. His family emigrated to Canada when Edgar was a child and he
learnt to play ice hockey while living in Niagara Falls. He returned to
Britain in 1935, after a season in the American Hockey League with
Hershey, to join the Richmond Hawks before moving to the Harringay
Greyhounds a year later. An
ever-present of all seven games in the ’36 Olympics, Brenchley scored
the only goal of the game in the first game against Sweden, but crowned
the tournament with the game-winning goal against Canada with barely 90
seconds left on the game clock. Just
5’9” and weighing only ten stone, Brenchley was a clever winger and
scoring 8 goals, he helped GB retain their European Championship crown
in 1937, when the tournament was staged in London. After
the Second World War, ‘Chirp’ returned to North America to coached
Atlantic City and later joined the scouting staff of the Washington
Capitals in their inaugural NHL season. Edgar
‘Chirp’ Brenchley died in 1975, in Canada. Compiled with research, provided by Martin C.Harris – April 1998. |
