Personal Life
John Bentley was born in June 1860 in Chapeltown, a small village to the south of Darwen, between Bolton and Blackburn. His father ran the grocers shop on Chapeltown highstreet, next door to the Chetham arms public house.
He was very keen on the new Harrow game when it was introduced to Chapeltown. His older brothers Thomas and William joined in with the first games played under the Harrow rules, but John was too young to play until the Association Rules had been introduced.
John married and had three children.
John James Bentley died aged fifty eight, and was buried in St Anne's Churchyard, Chapeltown, in September 1918.
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