Joseph Edward Crawshay Partridge
| Full name | Joseph Edward Crawshay Partridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 21 July 1879 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Llanthewy Court, Abergavenny, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 28 August 1965 (aged 86) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Dulwich College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Professional Soldier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Forward | ||
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| Amateur team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1907–10 | Army | () | |
| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1898–1901 1905–06 1899–1902 1904–11 Invitational 1905–15 |
Newport RFC Blackheath F.C. London Welsh Pretoria Quins Newport RFC Barbarians |
162 17 |
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| Provincial / State sides | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1902–03 | Transvaal | () | |
| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1903 Invitational 1915 |
South Africa Barbarians |
1 1 |
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Joseph Edward Crawshay Partridge (21 July 1890 – 28 August 1969) known as "The Bird" or "Birdie", was a Welsh born international rugby union player who was capped for South Africa and was a member of the Barbarians in that side's first international, played against Wales in 1915. He was also the founder of the Army Rugby Union.
Joseph Edward Crawshay Partridge was born 13 June 1879 in Llanthewy Court, Monmouth, near Abergavenny. He was the eldest son of Joseph Partridge (born Beaufort House, Beaufort, Monmouth 1843) and his wife Jessie (née James, born 1846 on the border near Kington Herefordshire). He had three younger brothers. His cousin, war hero, Richard Crawshay Bailey Partridge shared his Crawshay middle name. Their Suffolk-born grandfather, William Partridge, ironmaster, manager of the Beaufort Ironworks who married locally born Charlotte Bevan, was the son of Elizabeth Bailey, sister of Crawshay Bailey and Joseph Bailey.
He was sent to school at the English public school, Dulwich College, where he learnt his rugby. The school had a strong rugby tradition having already produced a number of international players by the time Partridge attended.
After leaving Dulwich, he went on to play for Newport RFC. His commitments with the Welch Regiment took him away from his homeland, however, and as a lieutenant he was sent to South Africa to fight in the Boer War. Whilst serving there, he joined the Pretoria Harlequins and latterly the provincial side, Transvaal, later to be renamed the Golden Lions. He even represented South Africa after the war in 1903 in one of the three tests against a touring British XV, who are retrospectively considered as the 1903 British Lions.
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