| 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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Edward Mordaunt Bannerman (14 January 1850 – 29 March 1923) was a Scottish international rugby and cricket player.[1]
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.