About Edward Crean
Born 1887. Edward Crean was a rugby union player.
Edward O'Donovan Crean (16 July 1887 – 24 December 1940) was an English rugby union player who was part of the first official British & Irish Lions team that toured South Africa in 1910. He is one of a small number of Lions players to have never played for their national side.
Early life Edward O'Donovan Crean was born on 16 July, 1887 in Liverpool, the son of the oil refiner James Crean (b 1853) and Catherine O'Halloran. Although both his parents were also born in Liverpool, all of Crean's grandparents were Irish. He had a number of older siblings. Edward Crean attended and boarded at the catholic Ampleforth Abbey and College.
Later life Edward O’Donovan Crean died on 24 December 1940 in Liverpool.
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