March 15, 1892
At a meeting of the members of the Everton Football Club, the suggestion to amalgamate with the Everton Football Club and Athletic Grounds Company, Limited, was not entertained; and a resolution that Messrs. John Houlding, Alex Nisbet, and Thomas Howarth, having lost the confidence of the members of the club, be respectively removed from the presidency and committee was adopted.
(Liverpool Mercury: March 16, 1892)