Edward Innes Pocock
| Birth name | Edward Innes Pocock | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 3 December 1855 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Clifton, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 14 January 1905 (aged 49) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Salisbury, Rhodesia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Clifton College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Soldier Mining Commissioner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Edward Innes Pocock (3 December 1855 – 14 January 1905) was a Scotland international rugby union player. Playing at three-quarters, Pocock gained two caps for Scotland while representing Edinburgh Wanderers at club level. A soldier by profession, he served in Cecil Rhodes' Pioneer Column. On leaving the army he became a civil servant holding several posts as Mining Commissioner in various districts of Rhodesia.