Ted Greatorex
| Born | Edward Neville Greatorex[1] 30 July 1901[1] Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia[1] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Died | 1964[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Journalist | ||||||||||||||||
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Edward Neville Greatorex (30 July 1901 – 16 July 1964) was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
Greatorex, a flanker, was born in Leichhardt and claimed a total of 8 international rugby caps for Australia. He played for the Y.M.C.A. Rugby Club in Sydney for over 10 years.
E.N.Greatorex was married to the noted Australian poet and journalist Elizabeth Riddell. The couple married in Sydney in 1935.
Ted Greatorex was a noted newspaper journalist at the Daily Mirror (Australia) and Reuters.
He died from a massive stroke at his home in Vaucluse, New South Wales in 1964.[2]
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- Australian rugby union players
- Australia international rugby union players
- 1901 births
- 1964 deaths
- Rugby union flankers
- 20th-century Australian journalists
- 20th-century Australian male journalists
- Rugby union players from Sydney
- New South Wales rugby union team players
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen
- Australian rugby union biography stubs