Edward Larkin

[Rexxy]

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Matt and Rob interview author Tom Mather about the greatest administrator Rugby League has seen. Edward Larkin affectionately known as Teddy rose from the humblest beginnings to become a sports administrator and politician. He took the Australian Rugby League in 1909 when there was a very real danger it would cease to exist and pulled it up by its boot straps. He was an energetic, forceful and farsighted man who succeeded in all he undertook.

https://www.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=81980

 

[DIOGENES]

An interesting man outside of RL, he was a Labor member of NSW Legislative assembly and took leave to join the Army in 1915. He died during the Anzac landing on 25 April 1915. By convention his seat should have been an uncontested by-election for Labor but the then Liberals renigged and the seat was lost.

 

[Captain Apollo]

Tom Mather's book is available as an e-book on Amazon -

https://www.amazon.com.au/EDWARD-RE...&qid=1471836250&sr=8-2&keywords=Edward+Larkin

 

[madunit]

Here's the piece I wrote about him a few years ago.

http://andrewrlp.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/edward-larkin-leader-of-men-2014.html