title: Pat Cleary (footballer)
text: # Pat Cleary (footballer)
  
  Patrick Francis Cleary (5 February 1874 – 1 April 1959) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
  
  ## Family
  
  The son of Patrick John Cleary (1846-1914), and Margaret Cleary (1853-1898), née Smith, Patrick Francis Cleary was born at Kilmore, Victoria on 5 February 1874.
  
  He married Jessie Maud Albinson (1887-1955) in 1907.
  
  ## Death
  
  He died at St Vincent's Hospital in Fitzroy on 1 April 1959.
  
  