Five games and two medals for Irishman

John Pius Boland was a member of the Dublin milling family.

After his parents died, he, his five sisters and one brother were reared by their maternal uncle, Dr Nicholas Donnelly, the Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin, along with the help of his housekeeper.

The two boys were sent to the Oratory in Birmingham, where Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman was the headmaster. John Pius Boland went on to study law at Oxford.