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In Bob Seddon's day, they did things differently.

Captain of the wide-eyed Victorians of 1888, Seddon led the first rugby team of its kind to leave these shores and head south, not yet as the British and Irish Lions, but precursors and pioneers.

Seddon's squad set sail for New Zealand and Australia on RMS Kaikoura.

Seddon, from Lancashire, was engaged to be married.

They matter, in part, because of folk like Seddon and all the heroes and all the social history that came in his wake.