Edward Larkin
MLA ER Larkin 1913
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| Full name | Edward Rennix Larkin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 21 September 1880 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | North Lambton, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 25 April 1915 (aged 34) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Gallipoli, Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | May Josephine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | hooker | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1897-1903 | Endeavour Rugby Club | () | |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1903 | New South Wales | 2 | () |
| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1903 | Australia | 1 | (0) |
Edward Rennix "Teddy" Larkin (21 September 1880–25 April 1915) was an Australian parliamentarian and a national representative rugby union player who saw service in World War I and was killed in action on the first day of the Gallipoli Campaign. He was one of only two serving members of any Australian parliament to fall in World War I (the other, who also fell at Gallipoli (on 4 May 1915), was George Braund). Larkin was the member for Willoughby in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from December 1913 until his death.
Larkin was born at North Lambton, New South Wales, to William Joseph Larkin, a quarryman and his wife Mary Ann, née Rennix. His family moved to Camperdown in Sydney where the young Ted Larkin was schooled at St Benedict's Broadway, run by the Marist Brothers. For his last two years of senior schooling he boarded at St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, where he played in the college's 1896 first rugby XV.
After school he worked in journalism before joining the Metropolitan Police Force in 1903 as a foot-constable, later being promoted to first-constable in 1905. His prematurely grey hair made him appear much older than he actually was.
He maintained an active involvement in sports after completing his schooling and participated in cricket, swimming and rugby union playing first grade with the Endeavour Rugby Club at Newtown in Sydney. In 1903 he was captain of that club and made his representative debut for New South Wales against Queensland and the touring New Zealand national rugby team before being selected for Australia in the first test of 1903 at Sydney on 15 August, against those same All Blacks. Larkin played hooker for the Australian representative side, in a pack featuring future rugby league pioneers and dual-code rugby internationals Alex Burdon, Denis Lutge and Bill Hardcastle. The Australians were soundly beaten 22-3.
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