Bernard Croft
Appearance
Birth name | Bernard Hugh Denman Croft[1] | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | [1] | 24 August 1903||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Armidale, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 27 February 1984 (aged 80) | ||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Armidale, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||
School | The Armidale School | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Sir Bernard Hugh Denman Croft, 13th Baronet Croft of Croft Castle (24 August 1903 – 27 February 1984) was an Australian rugby union player. Croft, a wing, claimed one international rugby cap for Australia.
Croft was born in Boorolong station, Armidale, New South Wales,[3] the son of Sir Hugh Matthew Fiennes Croft, 12th Baronet, and Lucy Taylor.[4]
He died at Armidale in 1984.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "Scrum.com player profile of Bernard Croft". Scrum.com. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Debrett's Peerage Limited. 1995. p. 236. ISBN 978-0-333-41776-8. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
- ^ "Births". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 September 1903. p. 4.
- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1914. p. 535. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
- ^ "Deaths". The Sydney Morning Herald. 29 February 1984. p. 25.
Categories:
- Australian rugby union players
- Australia international rugby union players
- 1903 births
- 1984 deaths
- Rugby union players from New South Wales
- Rugby union wings
- Baronets in the Baronetage of England
- People educated at The Armidale School
- New South Wales rugby union team players
- Australian rugby union biography stubs