Birth name | Edward Peake | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 20 March 1860 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Tidenham, Gloucestershire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 3 January 1945 | (aged 84)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Huntingdonshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Marlborough College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | Oriel College, Oxford | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Edward Peake (29 March 1860 – 3 January 1945) was a Wales international rugby union three-quarter and county cricketer. Educated at Oriel College, Oxford, Peake would win a Blue for cricket before representing Gloucestershire. Peake is most notable for being a member of the first Wales rugby union team that played England in 1881. In his later life he became a teacher and Anglican minister.