Victor Le Fanu
Birth name | Victor Charles Le Fanu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 14 October 1865 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Dublin, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 9 August 1939 | (aged 73)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Bray, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Haileybury | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | Trinity College, Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable relative(s) | Sheridan Le Fanu paternal uncle Henry Le Fanu, brother | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Land agent[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Victor Charles Le Fanu (14 October 1865 – 9 August 1939)[2][3] was an Irish international rugby union flanker who played club rugby for Landsdowne.
Le Fanu was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and would later play for Cambridge rugby team.[4] He won three sporting Blues, playing in all three Varsity matches from 1884-1886.
His father was William Le Fanu, a Commissioner of the Irish Board of Works, who more famously was the brother of Sheridan Le Fanu.
International career
[edit]Le Fanu was first capped for Ireland on 6 February 1886 in a home game against England. Le Fanu, still at Cambridge, had a difficult start which saw England win comfortably, in front of a then record crowd of 7,000. Le Fanu would represent Ireland on 11 occasions, and in 1892 he captained the team in all three home nation matches.
International matches played
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Griffiths, Terry (1987). The Phoenix Book of International Rugby Records. London: Phoenix House. ISBN 0-460-07003-7.
References
[edit]- ^ Meddows-Taylor genealogy
- ^ Interment.net Saint Patrick Anglican Churchyard Powerscourt, Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Ireland.
- ^ Griffiths (1987), 12:24.
- ^ "Le Fanu, Victor Charles (L884VC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.