Karl Whittindale

Like his older brother Claud, Karl Whittindale was one of the Moseley Wanderers half-backs at the 1900 Olympics. There was a third brother, Raymond, and all three played for Aston Old Edwardians. Until recently it was believed that Claud and Raymond played in the 1900 Olympic rugby football match, but recent evidence has shown that it was Karl, not Raymond. All members of the Whittindale family were keen on amateur dramatics in their home-town of Kenilworth where their father James was a local estate agent and auctioneer.

After the death of his father, Whittindale used his inheritance to set himself up as a stockbroker but the business failed and he went to work as a racehorse trainer. He was married three times. His first wife died at the age of 23, shortly after giving birth to his only child. A second marriage lasted nearly half a century and then, ten years after his second wife passed away, he married for a third and final time at the age of 80.

Karl moved to the United States, living in East Orange, New Jersey at the time he registered for the draft in World War I. He got a licence for participate in races as an amateur jockey in 1911 and would train horses with moderate success in America.

His occupation was listed as a proprietor and instructor. Karl Whittindale moved to the Philadelphia area where he ran a riding academy and died there in 1962.