Bert Hoskins

Albert Hubert Hoskins (born 1883 in Tettenhall) was an English football forward and football manager.

Albert Hoskins played for Southampton and Shrewsbury Town before joining Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1900. He failed to make the grade at Molineux and began working in the club offices in 1904, eventually becoming the club secretary in 1922. As secretary he also acted as assistant to Wolves' manager George Jobey, taking over as manager in May 1924, combining his secretarial duties with those of managing the playing side.

His first season in charge at Molineux saw Wolves finish 6th in Division Two, a vast improvement on the previous post-war seasons. The following season, Wolves continued to challenge at the top of the table, they would eventually finish in 4th place, but Hoskins surprisingly left Molineux to take to up a secretary-manager's post at Gillingham in March 1926. He spent almost three seasons at Gillingham, with the side always struggling in the lower reaches of Division Three (South) and left in 1929 to become secretary-manager at Torquay United, taking over from Percy Mackrill. His only full season in charge at Plainmoor saw Torquay finish 19th out of 22 sides, and he left in July 1930. He later worked as a trainer, coach and scout for a number of non-league sides up to the start of the war in 1939, at which point he left football

Albert Hoskins died circa 1955.