A fact from Robert Seddon appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 May 2009 ( check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Robert Seddon, captain of the first British Lions rugby team, drowned during the 1888 Australian tour in a sculling accident? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/May.

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I have just scratched the surface on what the data sources could be mined for. A better description of the boating incident can be found at the Otago link. I will leave my contribution at that for now, and let others go ahead and see what else could be gleaned. SauliH ( talk) 14:57, 9 August 2010 (UTC) reply

link to newspaper illustration of memorial Trove website SauliH ( talk) 03:42, 24 June 2013 (UTC) reply

This from the Athletic News 21 Aug 1888: 'The deceased's full name was Robert Seddon. He only assumed the second Christian name Lever [not Lionel] to distinguish him from two other Robert Seddons, who were playing football at the same time in Manchester...born on October 21st, 1860.' Cris Freddi. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.2.101.190 ( talk) 22:54, 22 April 2019 (UTC) reply