Edward Barrett

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Edward Barrett (English sportsman)

Edward Ivo Medhurst Barrett CIE (22 June 1879 – 10 July 1950) was an English cricketer and rugby union international. A right-handed batsman who was considered one of the finest and hardest hitters of his day, he played first-class cricket for Hampshire, mainly between 1896 and 1912, with additional matches in 1920 and 1925.

Cricket career

22 June 1879 in Churt, Surrey, England, Barrett made his debut for Hampshire in 1896, playing a County Championship match against Warwickshire. He also played against Essex and Leicestershire the same year. He played more matches in 1897 and 1898 before serving in the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1902 though he did return for a handful of matches in 1901.

He returned to the Hampshire team in 1903, playing three matches that year, but by then his career with the police force was beginning to affect his availability for Hampshire, even more so when he was posted in the far east, where he played cricket for the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States and was eventually made Commissioner of the Shanghai Municipal Police, where he played 14 matches for their cricket team over the years, his last coming as late as 1927.

Edward Barrett (Irish sportsman)

Edward Edmond "Ned" Barrett (3 November 1877 – 19 March 1932) was a track and field athlete, wrestler and hurler.

He was born in Rahela, Ballyduff, County Kerry, Ireland.

Barrett played hurling with the local Ballyduff team. He emigrated to London, joined a local hurling club and was selected for the London GAA team. He was a corner-forward on the London team which won the 1901 All-Ireland Championship, beating Cork GAA 1-5 to 0-4 in the final. It remains London's only senior All-Ireland hurling Championship title. Barrett also appeared for London in the final of the following year, but this time Cork gained revenge, thrashing London 3-13 to 0-0.

He won a gold medal as part of the City of London Police tug-of-war team in the 1908 Olympic Games in London. He also won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division of the freestyle wrestling competition.

Barrett also competed in the shot, javelin and discus competitions in the 1908 athletics programme, but wrestling was his premier sport. He was British heavyweight freestyle champion in 1909 and 1911. Barrett also competed in Greco-Roman wrestling in both 1908 and the Stockholm Olympics of 1912. He was defeated in the first round on both occasions.