Michael Garry Explained

Michael Garry
Full Name:Michael Gerald Garry
Birth Place:Shanahea, Kildysart,
County Clare, Ireland
Death Date:17 September 1967 (aged 80)
Death Place:Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Position:Forward
Repyears1:1909–11
Repcaps1:7
Reppoints1:0

Michael Gerald Garry was an Irish international rugby union player.

A native of County Clare, Garry was a doctor by profession and played his club rugby for Bective Rangers, from where he was capped seven times as a forward for Ireland between 1909 and 1911.[1]

Garry's brother Joseph died in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.[1]

Settling in Lancashire, Garry was for over three decades the Medical Officer of Health for the town of Formby.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. News: McGann . Colin . Coolmeen: A small parish with a big heart . . 5 December 2015.
  2. News: Dr. Garry dies in hospital . . 21 September 1967.