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{{short description|English footballer and secretary manager}}
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{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name           = Thomas McIntosh
| fullname       = Thomas Herbert McInotsh
| birth_date     = {{birth date|1879|2|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Sedgefield]], [[County Durham]], England
| death_date     = {{death date and age|1935|10|29|1879|2|24|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Liverpool]], England
| years1         = 1895–1902
| clubs1         = [[Darlington F.C.|Darlington]]
| caps1   =  | goals1 = 
| manageryears1 = 1902–1911 | manageryears2 = 1911–1919 | manageryears3 =1919–1935
| managerclubs1 = [[Darlington F.C.|Darlington]] (secretary) | managerclubs2 = [[Middlesbrough F.C.|Middlesbrough]] (secretary) | managerclubs3 =[[Everton F.C.|Everton]] (secretary)
}}
'''Thomas Herbert McIntosh''' (24 February 1879 – 29 October 1935) was secretary manager of [[Darlington F.C.|Darlington]], [[Middlesbrough F.C.|Middlesbrough]] and [[Everton F.C.|Everton]].

== Biography ==

He played for Darlington before becoming secretary manager in 1902. He moved to [[Middlesbrough]] nine years later where new chairman [[Philip Bach]] was charged with rebuilding the club following the match-fixing scandal involving the previous chairman Thomas Gibson-Poole and manager [[Andy Walker (football manager)|Andy Walker]]. He helped the club achieve their highest ever league position - third in the first division - but with a potential championship team taking shape his plans were interrupted by the outbreak of [[World War I]]. During the war, Boro released their players and closed down, while [[Ayresome Park]] was used as a munitions store.

McIntosh joined the Teesside Pioneers, a battalion of Alexandra, [[The Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)]], formed in Middlesbrough in December 1914. He saw active service in France as a sergeant. Was commissioned and became 2nd Lieutenant 29 January 1917. When the war ended he guided Boro to the Northern Victory League title and prepared the club for a return to normality. In December 1919, however, an offer came in for his services from [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] and he left with the blessing of the Boro board.

At Everton he was most famous for spotting and signing [[Dixie Dean]]. Under McIntosh's guidance Everton won the [[FA Cup]] and twice won the [[Football League First Division|Football League Championship]]. He died from cancer in October 1935, and was eventually replaced as secretary manager at Everton by [[Theo Kelly]].

== Honours ==

=== As a secretary manager ===
'''[[Everton F.C.|Everton]]'''
*'''[[Football League First Division|First Division Title]]''' winner: [[1927-28 in English football|1927–28]], [[1931-32 in English football|1931–32]]
*'''[[Football League Second Division|Second Division Title]]''' winner: [[1930-31 in English football|1930–31]]
*'''[[FA Charity Shield]]''' winner: 1928, 1932
*'''[[FA Cup]]''' winner: [[1933 FA Cup Final|1933]]
*'''FA Charity Shield''' runner-up: 1933

== Managerial statistics ==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Team
!rowspan="2"|From
!rowspan="2"|To
!colspan="5"|Record
|-
!G!!W!!L!!D!!Win %
|-
|align=left|[[Darlington F.C.|Darlington]] (secretary)
|align=left|1902
|align=left|1911
||142||60||23||59||42.25
|-
|align=left|[[Middlesbrough F.C.|Middlesbrough]] (secretary)
|align=left|1911
|align=left|1919
||179||88||49||56||38.55
|-
|align=left|[[Everton F.C.|Everton]] (secretary)
|align=left|August 1919
|align=left|May 1935
||719||286||254||179||39.8
|-
!colspan=4|Total
{{WDLtot|1054|434|326|294}}
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of English football championship winning managers]]

== External links ==
* {{Soccerbase|name=Thomas McIntosh}}
* '''Birth Registration''': "England & Wales General Register Office", [https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp?index=EW_Birth&year=1879&range=0&surname=MACKINTOSH&motherssurname=HUNTER&forename1=THOMAS&forename2=HERBERT&gender=M&quarter=M&district=STOCKTON&volume=10A&page=114 GRO Online Indexes - Birth] (accessed 1 August 2024), Mackintosh, Thomas Herbert (Mother's maiden name: Hunter). ''GRO Reference:'' 1879 Jan-Feb-Mar in [https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/stockton.html Stockton] Volume 10A Page 114.

{{English Football First Tier League Championship winning managers}}
{{FA Cup winning managers}}
{{Darlington F.C. managers}}
{{Middlesbrough F.C. managers}}
{{Everton F.C. managers}}

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