Walter Daniel John Tull (28 April 1888 - 25 March 1918). Tull was the first Black outfield player in the top division of the Football League, and the first ever Black infantry officer in the British Army. Walter Tull was born in Folkestone, Kent, the son of Daniel Tull a carpenter who had emigrated from Barbados and a local woman Alice Palmer. Following the death of his parents he was brought up in an orphanage in Bethnal Green with his brother Edward. Wikipedia
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And they both involve the same man; Walter Tull was one of Britain's first black professional footballers, playing for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town in the years leading up to the first world war. web.ukonline.co.uk/ntfc/tull.htm
