Harry Tancred
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| Full name | Henry Eugene Tancred | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 25 May 1897 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Balmain, NSW | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 15 November 1961 (aged 64) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Bellevue Hil, NSW | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6'2" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 15 st (210 lb; 95 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | St. Joseph's Rozelle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable relative(s) |
Arnold Tancred Jim Tancred Peter John Tancred |
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| Spouse | Myra Kathleen Bresnahan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Wholesaler/Exporter Meat Industry |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1914-1921 |
Petone Rugby Club Glebe-Balmain |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1919-1921 1923 |
All Blacks Waratahs |
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Henry Eugene "Harry" Tancred (25 May 1897 – 15 November 1961) was a rugby union player and administrator who represented for New Zealand and Australia. He was an entrepreneurial businessman influential in meat wholesaling and exporting who together with his brothers, built Tancred Industries to become one of Australia's largest wholesale butchering firms. He was active in the thoroughbred industry as a racing administrator and racehorse owner.
Born in Balmain, New South Wales, Henry was the sixth of ten children born to Thomas Tancred, a butcher from California, United States of America, and his Victorian-born wife Anna, née O'Connor. He was educated by the Christian Brothers at St Joseph's School, Rozelle in Sydney before his father took the family to New Zealand pursuing opportunities in the meat trade. There while still a teenager Tancred worked as a drover and a slaughterman. Tancred returned to Sydney in the 1920s along with a number of his six brothers.
Tancred, a number eight played with the Petone Rugby Club from 1914.
Upon his return to Sydney in the 1920s he was active as a player at the Glebe-Balmain club. He made representative appearances for the New South Wales state side. In 1923 the New Zealand Māori rugby union team visited and Tancred appeared in two games of the three match series in which the Waratahs were undefeated. With no Queensland Rugby Union administration or competition in place from 1919 to 1929, the New South Wales Waratahs were the top Australian representative rugby union side of the period and a number of their 1920s fixtures, including Tancred's two appearances in Sydney in June 1923, were decreed in 1986 as official Test matches. Tancred thus claimed a total of two international rugby caps for Australia. His brothers Arnold and Jim were also Australian national rugby representatives both making the 1927–28 Waratahs tour of the British Isles, France and Canada. Harry would later be involved in the administration of both the Randwick and Drummoyne Rugby Clubs.
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