About Edward Croker
Edward Croker was a rugby union player.
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.
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