Edward Treharne
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 Treharne stood in back row, second from right, with the first Wales international team, 1881. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth name | Edward Llewellyn Treharne | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 22 March 1862 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Ystradyfodwg, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 29 December 1904 (aged 42) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Barry, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Cowbridge Grammar School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Edward Llewellyn Treharne[1] (22 March 1862 – 29 December 1904)[2] was a Welsh rugby union forward who played club rugby for Pontypridd and Cardiff,[3] and international rugby for Wales. He was a member of the first Wales international team that played England in 1881. At the time of the game he was still a student at Cowbridge, and later became a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital.[1]
Treharne was born in Glamorganshire, Wales in 1862. In John M. Jenkins' 1991 book Who's Who of Welsh International Rugby Players his place of birth is stated as Merthyr Tydfil, a fact reiterated by the 1862 birth register.[4] On rugby website Scrum.com, his birthplace is given as Ystradyfodwg, the old parish which once contained what is now the Rhondda.[2] Both facts may be correct as the Merthyr Tydfil registration district during Victorian times contained the parish of Ystradyfodwg.[5] His father, David Treharne, was a land agent in Merthyr.[6] Due to the boom in coal prospecting, David Treharne became wealthy, and later moved to the Rhondda where he built a house in Pentre, called Pentre House.[6] Edward Treharne was the third child of six, his elder siblings all boys, his younger siblings all girls.[6] Research shows he was the 3rd of six children, two elder brothers, one younger on and two younger sisters.
Treharne was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School he later studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. He became a Doctor of Medicine, and was prominent in local politics.[3] He was the president of Cadoxton Junior Conservative Club, was a member of both the Barry Lodge of Freemasons and Barry District Council.[3] He was married to Margaret Louise (Crooke), and they had at least two children.[6] In fact, when he married Margaret Louise in 1899, he was a widower and both his sons were from his first wife, Lydia Elizabeth Billings. His youngest son, Leslie Llewellyn Treharne died of wounds in France, during the First World War on 24 September 1915.[6]
Treharne died at home in Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan in 1904 at the age of 42.[3] The cause of death was recorded as a heart attack;[7] Treharne had been told eighteen months prior that he was suffering from an enlargement of the heart, and that he was not to over exert himself.[6]
