Edward Croker | |
Full Name: | Edward William Dunlo Croker |
Birth Date: | 14 September 1849 |
Birth Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
Death Place: | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
Position: | Forward |
Repyears1: | 1878 |
Repcaps1: | 1 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Edward William Dunlo Croker (14 September 1849 — 10 May 1893) was an Irish international rugby union player.
Born in Dublin, Croker was the great-grandson of William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, and grandson of Henry Monck, 1st Earl of Rathdowne. He gained an Ireland cap in 1878, as a forward against England at Lansdowne Road. While in Chicago in 1893 to attend the World's Fair, Croker suffered fatal injuries when he fell from a horse.[1] [2]