Clement Charnock

rdf:langString Clement Charnock

rdf:langString Clement Joseph Charnock (1865, Chorley – 17 April 1950) was an English mechanical engineer who spent much of his career in Imperial Russia and is credited with being a pioneer of football in Russia. He followed his elder brother, James Charnock, who had left for Russia in 1868, when Clement was only three. Another brother, , also joined them in Russia. Charnock started his career with Platt Brothers, a company in Oldham, Lancashire, that produced textile machinery. Here he completed a five-year apprenticeship in 1887. Then he took up the post of Assistant Manager with Morozov and Sons at their factory in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, 85 km east of Moscow. In 1891 he became chief director for the Gorbunov Brothers. After remaining in post for sixteen years, in 1907 he took up a similar position with the Konshin Brothers. In 1910 he established his own business manufacturing paper tubes in a factory in Moscow. In 1916 he returned to England where he became involved with a long-established company in Manchester that produced textile machinery.