Albert Freear

Albert Edward Freear was an Irish international rugby union player.
Freear was born in Salford, Lancashire, and educated in Dublin, attending Sandymount Academical Institution.
A wing three-quarter, Freear played for Dublin club Lansdowne [Football Club|Lansdowne], from where he attained his three Ireland national [rugby union team|Ireland] caps in the 1901 [Home Nations], scoring his only try against Wales at Swansea. He later captained professional rugby league team Hull FC, which he joined in 1904.
Freear was handed a four-month prison sentence by a London court in 1908 on the charge of embezzlement, having pled guilty to stealing money from his employer. He subsequently immigrated to Australia.