Edward Mordaunt Bannerman (14 January 1850 – 29 March 1923) was a Scottish international rugby and cricket player.[1]
| Birth name | Edward Mordaunt Bannerman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 14 January 1850 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Aberdeen, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 29 March 1923 (aged 73) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Bodmin, Cornwall, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Clifton College Edinburgh Academy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
See also
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edit- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)
- ^ a b c d Bath, p104
- ^ Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564–1950
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "Deaths". The Scotsman. 24 October 1916. p. 8. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
- ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007
- ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995
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