Geoffrey Robert d'Aubrey Hosking (11 March 1922 - 13 January 1991) was an English rugby union international.
Full name | Geoffrey Robert d'Aubrey Hosking | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 11 March 1922 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | St Thomas, Devon, England | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 13 January 1991 | (aged 68)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Dover, Kent, England | ||||||||||||||||
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Hosking was born in Exeter and educated at Cheltenham College.[1]
A captain with the Royal Marines, Hosking played rugby for the Navy, as well as Plymouth club Devonport Services.[2]
Hosking was capped five times by England as a lock in the 1949 and 1950 Five Nations campaigns. It was later discovered that he had been playing with a broken back through his England career, which required surgery.[3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Simpson, Tony (24 December 1997). "Class of '39 stake claim to fame". The Daily Telegraph.
- ^ "English Who's Who". Western Mail. 21 January 1950.
- ^ "Birth of an uncapped Lion". ESPNscrum.