Ernest Edward Booth
Birth name | Ernest Edward Booth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 24 February 1876 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Teschmakers, North Otago, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 18 October 1935 | (aged 59)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Christchurch, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Journalist, rugby union coach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ernest Edward Booth (24 February 1876 – 18 October 1935) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A fullback and three-quarter, Booth represented Template:Rut Otago at a provincial level between 1896 and 1907, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1905 to 1907. He played 24 matches for the All Blacks including three internationals, and was a member of the Original All Blacks on their 1905–06 tour of the British Isles, France and North America.[1]
Booth moved to Sydney and played for New South Wales between 1908 and 1909.[1] He toured as a press correspondent with the Australian rugby union team on their 1908–09 tour of Britain, and while there played several matches for Leicester.[1][2] He served with the Australian forces during World War I as secretary in the YMCA.[1]
In the 1920s, Booth was appointed as a professional coach by the Southland Rugby Union, developing the game in that region.[1] In 1924, he accompanied the All Blacks on their tour of Britain, Ireland and France as the representative of the Australian Press Association.[2] He then toured with New Zealand Māori on the British and French legs of their 1926–27 tour, reporting for newspapers in the North Island.[2]
Booth died in the Christchurch suburb of St Albans on 18 October 1935,[1][2][3] and he was buried in the Oamaru Old Cemetery.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Knight, Lindsay. "General Booth". New Zealand Rugby Union. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Famous All Black dead". Evening Star. 19 October 1935. p. 14. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
- ^ "Deaths". The Press. 19 October 1935. p. 1. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
- ^ "Cemetery search". Waitaki District Council. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
- 1876 births
- 1935 deaths
- People from Otago
- New Zealand rugby union players
- New Zealand international rugby union players
- Otago rugby union players
- New South Wales Waratahs players
- Leicester Tigers players
- Rugby union fullbacks
- Rugby union three-quarters
- New Zealand sportswriters
- 20th-century New Zealand journalists
- New Zealand rugby union coaches
- New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Australia
- New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in England
- Australian military personnel of World War I
- Burials at Oamaru Old Cemetery
- New Zealand rugby union biography stubs