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{{Infobox rugby biography <br />
| name = Edward Crean<br />
| image = [[File:Edward Crean.png|Edward O'D Crean with the British Isles team in 1910]]<br />
| birth_name = Edward O'Donovan Crean<br />
| nickname = <br />
| birth_date = 16 July 1887<ref> Liverpool Catholic Parish Registers; Reference Number: 282 MIC/1/3</ref><br />
| birth_place = [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]], [[England]]<ref>Class: RG13; Piece: 4551; Folio: 27; Page: 5. Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1901.</ref><br />
| death_date = 24 December 1940<br />
| death_place = Liverpool<br />
| height = <br />
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| ru_position = Forward<br />
| repteam1 = [[British & Irish Lions|British Isles]]<br />
| repcaps1 = tour<br />
| reppoints1 = <br />
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| repyears1 = 1910<br />
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| clubs1 = [[Liverpool St Helens FC|Liverpool Football Club]]<br />
| occupation = <br />
| school = [[Ampleforth College|Ampleforth Abbey and College]]<ref name="The Ampleforth Journal Page 234">The Ampleforth Journal, by Ampleforth Abbey (York, England), Page 234, Item notes: 14 (1908-1909)</ref><br />
| university =<br />
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'''Edward O'Donovan Crean''' (16 July 1887 – 24 December 1940) was an English [[rugby union]] player who was part of the first official [[British & Irish Lions]] team that [[1910 British Lions tour to South Africa|toured South Africa in 1910]]. He is one of a small number of Lions players to have never played for their national side.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Edward O'Donovan Crean was born on 16 July, 1887 in Liverpool, the son of the oil refiner James Crean<ref>Class: RG12; Piece: 2998; Folio 104; Page 41; GSU roll: 6098108.<br />
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1891</ref> (b 1853) and Catherine O'Halloran. Although both his parents were also born in Liverpool, all of Crean's grandparents were Irish. He had a number of older siblings. Edward Crean attended and boarded at the catholic [[Ampleforth College|Ampleforth Abbey and College]].<ref name="The Ampleforth Journal Page 234"/><br />
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==Rugby career==<br />
Crean played for [[Liverpool St Helens FC|Liverpool Football Club]], a rugby club, which later became Liverpool and St Helens RFC, and is not to be confused with its association football equivalent. He played in the Oxford University<ref name="The Ampleforth Journal Page 234"/> clash in the 1908/09 season and played alongside the two Irish internationals, G. Pinion and M.G. Garry. He also saw the beginnings of potentially the greatest side of Liverpool that contained three international captains (Poulton-Palmer of England, Lloyd of Ireland and Turner of Scotland).<br />
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Despite having not been selected for the [[England national rugby union team|England team]], in 1910 Crean was selected for the first official [[British & Irish Lions|British]] [[1910 British Lions tour to South Africa|tour to South Africa]] (in that it was sanctioned and selected by the four Home Nations official governing bodies).<br />
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==First World War==<br />
In the [[First World War]] Crean joined the [[Royal Naval Air Service]], which by the end of the war had merged with the [[Royal Flying Corps]] to become the [[Royal Air Force]]. By the end of the war he had risen to the rank of captain, and was elected to the [[Royal Aero Club]] of the UK on 19 June 1919.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1919/1919%20-%200800.html |title=aero club {{!}} royal aero {{!}} lieut {{!}} 1919 {{!}} 0800 {{!}} Flight Archive |website=www.flightglobal.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012130204/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1919/1919%20-%200800.html |archive-date=2012-10-12}} </ref><br />
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==Later life==<br />
Edward O’Donovan Crean died on 24 December 1940 in Liverpool.<ref> England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 </ref><br />
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