John Robert Edwards Sumner (14 November 1850 – 15 October 1933) was an amateur

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who played for

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in the

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. He was later a rancher in the United States.

Family

Sumner was born in

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, to the Rev. John Henry Robertson Sumner (1821-1910), Rector of Southchurch (and later of

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