Jack Borthwick (footballer, born 1886)
John James Blacklaw Borthwick was a Scottish professional football centre half who played in the Football League for Everton. He also played in the Scottish League for Hibernian.Borthwick served as a private with the 17th Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own during the First World War and was wounded in the head at Delville Wood in 1916. 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". After his retirement from football, he ran the Winslow Hotel, opposite Goodison Park.
