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Scottish cricketer & Scotland international rugby union player For Sir Edward Bannerman, 5th Baronet (died 1796), see Bannerman baronets.

Rugby player
Edward Bannerman
Birth nameEdward Mordaunt Bannerman
Date of birth(1850-01-14)14 January 1850
Place of birthAberdeen, Scotland
Date of death29 March 1923(1923-03-29) (aged 73)
Place of deathBodmin, Cornwall, England
SchoolClifton College
Edinburgh Academy
Rugby union career
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
Edinburgh Academicals RFC ()
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1872-1873 Scotland

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

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

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

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

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 .

He died in Bodmin, Cornwall, England, in 1923, aged 73.

See also

References

  • 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)
  1. ^ Bath, p104
  2. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564–1950
  3. ^ 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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