He took over the captaincy early in the tour when the Robert L. Seddon died in a sculling accident.
The captaincy of the team, following Seddon's death, passed onto Andrew Stoddart.
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In 1888, a private venture by cricketers Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury, saw a group of rugby players chosen to tour Australia and New Zealand.
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He had ventured up river alone, and his team mates Jack Anderton and Andrew Stoddart found him dead some time later.
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His maternal uncle was Robert Seddon, who (after receiving Presbyterian ordination on 14 June 1654) became minister at Gorton, Lancashire and Langley, Derbyshire, where he was silenced in 1662.