Edward Larkin

Edward Larkin

Player information
Full name	Edward Rennix Larkin
birthday	January 3, 1880
place of birth	Lambton , New South Wales , Australia
date of death	April 25, 1915
Place of death	Lonely pine tree , Gallipoli , Ottoman Empire
Nickname	"Teddy"
society
society	Career ended
position	hooker
Clubs as active
Years	society	Games (points)
1897-1903	Endeavor Rugby Club	()
Provinces as active
Years	province	Games (points)
1903	New South Wales	2 ()
National team
Years	National team	Games (points)
1903	Australia	1 (0)

Edward Rennix Larkin (born January 3, 1880 in Lambton , New South Wales , † April 25, 1915 on the hill of the Lonely Pine , Gallipoli , Ottoman Empire ) was an Australian rugby union player, politician of the Australian Labor Party and the first Full time secretary of the New South Wales Rugby League of great importance in making rugby leagues the dominant sport in the greater Sydney area.

Larkin was the son of William Joseph Larkin , a miner , and Mary Ann , née Rennix, both Australians by birth. He began playing rugby at St Joseph's College in Hunters Hill , Sydney. After graduating in 1896, he worked as a journalist for the Year Book of Australia and was also an avid athlete. Larkin was hooker and captain of the Newtown Rugby Union Club . In 1903 he married, entered the service of the Sydney Metropolitan Police Force and was appointed captain of the Waratahs , the rugby union selection of New South Wales, as Newton's captain . For the Waratahs he was used in two tests, one each against the Reds and the Queensland selection , as well as the New Zealand national team All Blacks . The All Blacks' tour also saw the first international match between Australia and New Zealand. Larkin was also used for the wallabies .

Larkin quit his time with the police in 1909 to get involved in politics and probably joined the Australian Labor Party in 1909. In the summer of 1909, the leadership of the newly formed New South Wales Rugby League resigned. Larkin, who already showed sympathy with the emigration ideas of the later rugby league founders during his active rugby union days, was the first to take over the new position as full-time secretary of the association and its league. Thanks to his professional management style, he was able to quickly stabilize the association. An international match between an Australasian selection and the English national team, as well as his success in persuading the Catholic schools of the Sydney region to switch to the League code, stabilized the Rugby League to such an extent that it has remained dominant in the region to this day.

In 1911 Larkin was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace , a kind of civil notary and arbitrator . In 1913 he resigned from the secretary's office of the League Association and in the elections in December 1913 he was surprisingly with 51.6% of the vote as the first Labor MP in northern Sydney for Willoughby in the Legislative Assembly , the lower house of the Parliament of New South Wales elected. For Parliament, he sat on the boards of several hospitals and campaigned for the construction of a bridge over Sydney Harbor . Larkin volunteered for ANZAC in August but remained a de jure MP until January 1915. After a stopover near Cairo , he was embarked for the Battle of Gallipoli in the spring .

Larkin died on the evening of the day of the first landing on Gallipoli on April 25, 1915 when his train was attacked by Ottoman machine gun fire on the hill of Lonely Pine. His older brother Martin died on the same day and in the same place, the grave sites of both of them are unknown. Their names can only be found on the list of those who died on the central stele of the Lonely Pine Cemetery .

Honors

The final of the Australian Rugby League, the so-called City Cup , was dedicated to Larkin in 1915, where money was collected for his survivors. Posthumously, Larkin was awarded the 1914-15 Star , the British War Medal, and the Allied Victory Medal .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Chris Cunneen: Larkin, Edward Rennix (1880-1915). In: Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 9, Melbourne University Press, Online Edition. Australian National University , 1983, pp. 673f , accessed on September 22, 2009 (digitized 2006; ISSN  1833-7538 ). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} James Gray: ER Larkin - A Remarkable Old Boy. (PDF 1.4 MB) (No longer available online.) In: St. Joseph's College News, Term 3, Vol. 46 # August 2 , 2008, pp. 18f. , archived from the original on January 8, 2010 ; accessed on October 1, 2009 ( pdf ). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Rugby League ANZACS of World War One. (No longer available online.) In: RL1908 . Sean Fagan, 2005, archived from the original on July 6, 2007 ; Retrieved September 22, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Mr Edward Rennix LARKIN (1880-1915). In: Database of Members of the New South Wales Parliament. NSW Government, September 30, 2008; accessed October 1, 2009 . 

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