Henry Eugene "Harry" Tancred (25 May 1897 – 15 November 1961) was a rugby union and rugby league player and administrator who represented New Zealand at rugby league and Australia. He played 14 matches for New Zealand, 13 on tours of Australia in 1919 and 1921, and once in a pre-tour match against Auckland. He was an entrepreneurial businessman influential in meat wholesaling and exporting who together with his brothers, built Tancred Industries to become one of Australia's largest wholesale butchering firms. He was active in the thoroughbred industry as a racing administrator and racehorse owner. Two of his brothers, Arnold and Jim, also played rugby union for Glebe-Balmain and Australia. He married Myra Kathleen Bresnahan. Early life Born in Balmain, New South Wales, Henry was the sixth of ten children born to Thomas Tancred, a butcher from California, United States of America, and his Victorian-born wife Anna, née O'Connor. He was educated by the Christian Brothers at St Joseph's School, Rozelle in Sydney before his father took the family to New Zealand pursuing opportunities in the meat trade. There while still a teenager Tancred worked as a drover and a slaughterman. Tancred returned to Sydney in the 1920s along with a number of his six brothers. Rugby career Tancred, a number eight played with the Petone Rugby Club from 1914. Henry Tancred began his career playing in the Wellington region. In 1914 he played for the Petone rugby club against the Auckland club champions Ponsonby in a pre-season match won by Ponsonby 14-11. In 1915 he played for the Wellington rugby team against Auckland at Eden Park. Wellington won the match 9-5 in front of 5,000 spectators. Tancred continued to play for Petone and Wellington through to the 1918 season. In a 1918 article in the Free Lance, a Wellington based newspaper Tancred was described as a "big and burly youth… he is a fine specimen of a New Zealand lad, and takes a lot of stopping when he gets possession of the ball". This was to be his last season of rugby union. Upon his return to Sydney in 1923 he was active as a player at the Glebe-Balmain club. He made representative appearances for the New South Wales state side. In 1923 the New Zealand Māori rugby union team visited and Tancred appeared in two games of the three match series in which the Waratahs were undefeated.