Robert  "Bob" Clements would be born in Leith, die there, be married in port too, play all his football bar in 1891 a single Scottish cap, in and for Edinburgh, raise a family in the city as well but probably did not learn the game there. By the time he was seven his parents, his father English-born and a Shipwright to trade and his mother, actually Leith-born, had taken their family to Renfrew and probably never returned. Certainly in 1904 his mother would die still there. 

However, Bob, having started work in the Renfrewshire county-town as a Rivet Heater, would return by the age of twenty-two ,so in 1888, be supposedly at the beginning of what was to a short, four season spell, at half-back cum inside-forward, spent entirely with  Edinburgh's then fourth, third, perhaps even second team after Hibernian. It was probably brought to a premature end by injury but in the meantime he had married and, now working as a boiler-maker, was beginning a family. His bride was Leith-girl, Elizabeth Glover, and they were to have five children to 1905. But Elizabeth was then to die in 1910 aged just thirty-seven and Bob would be left to raised the youngest of them alone. He would not remarry, seemingly remaining in the same house until his own passing thirty-seven years later in 1947, aged eighty-one to be cremated at Warriston Cemetery.