Edward Bannerman

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Edward Bannerman
Birth nameEdward Mordaunt Bannerman
Date of birth(1850-01-14)14 January 1850
Place of birth Aberdeen, Scotland
Date of death29 March 1923(1923-03-29) (aged 73)
Place of death Bodmin, Cornwall, England
School Clifton College
Edinburgh Academy
Rugby union career
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Edinburgh Academicals RFC ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1872-1873 Scotland

Edward Mordaunt Bannerman (14 January 1850 – 29 March 1923) was a Scottish international rugby and cricket player. [1]

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Bannerman was born in the parish of Old Machar, Aberdeen, to Patrick Bannerman and Anna Maria Johnston. [2] He was educated, in England, at Clifton College, then at Edinburgh Academy. [3]

He was capped for Scotland between 1872 and 1873. [1] He also played for Edinburgh Academicals. [1]

He also played for the Scotland national cricket team, [1] as well as at county level in England for Shropshire between 1876 and 1881 while playing at club level for Wales-based Knighton. [3]

In 1916, his eldest son, Pte. Kenneth Mordaunt Bannerman, was killed in action in on the Somme while serving with the Lancashire Fusiliers in the First World War . [4]

He died in Bodmin, Cornwall, England, in 1923, [5] [6] aged 73.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Bath, p104
  2. ↑ Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564–1950
  3. 1 2 Percival, Tony (1999). Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998. A.C.S. Publications, Nottingham. pp. 7, 40. ISBN   1-902171-17-9.Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
  4. ↑ "Deaths". The Scotsman. 24 October 1916. p. 8. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  5. ↑ England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007
  6. ↑ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995
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