Victor Le Fanu

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.

Victor Le Fanu
Birth nameVictor Charles Le Fanu
Date of birth(1865-10-14)14 October 1865
Place of birthDublin, Ireland
Date of death9 August 1939(1939-08-09) (aged 73)
Place of deathBray, Ireland
Weightru_position = Flanker, Scrum half
SchoolHaileybury
UniversityTrinity College, Cambridge
Notable relative(s)Sheridan Le Fanu paternal uncle
Henry Le Fanu, brother
Occupation(s)Land agent[1]
Rugby union career
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
1884-1886 Cambridge University R.U.F.C.
Lansdowne Football Club		 ()
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
1886-1892 Ireland 11 (0)

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

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

Bibliography
  • Griffiths, Terry (1987). The Phoenix Book of International Rugby Records. London: Phoenix House. ISBN 0-460-07003-7.

References
  1. Meddows-Taylor genealogy
  2. Interment.net Saint Patrick Anglican Churchyard Powerscourt, Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Ireland.
  3. Griffiths (1987), 12:24.
  4. "Le Fanu, Victor Charles (L884VC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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