Edward Baker (rugby union) explained

Edward Baker
Full Name:Edward Morgan Baker
Birth Date:12 August 1874
Birth Place:New Jersey, United States
Death Place:Winchester, Hampshire, England
School:Denstone College
University:Keble College, Oxford
Position:Three-quarter
Repyears1:1895–97
Repcaps1:7
Reppoints1:0

Edward Morgan Baker (12 August 1874 – 25 November 1940) was an English international rugby union player.

Educated at Keble College, Oxford, Baker gained blues for rugby every year from 1893 to 1896. He was a Midland Counties representative player and gained seven England caps as a three-quarter.[1] [2]

Baker, ordained as a priest in 1898, took up an invitation from the Archbishop of Brisbane to become warden of St John's College in 1912, then from 1919 to 1932 served as headmaster of The King's School, Parramatta.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Lyttelton . Robert Henry . Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools . 1913 . W. Southwood . 244.
  2. News: E. M. Baker The Oxford Three Quarter . Echo (London) . 19 October 1895.
  3. News: The Rev. E. M. Baker. . The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 February 1941 . 5 . National Library of Australia.