Geoff Hosking

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Geoff Hosking
Full nameGeoffrey Robert d'Aubrey Hosking
Date of birth(1922-03-11)11 March 1922
Place of birth St Thomas, Devon, England
Date of death13 January 1991(1991-01-13) (aged 68)
Place of death Dover, Kent, England
Rugby union career
Position(s) Lock
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1949–50 England 5 (3)

Geoffrey Robert d'Aubrey Hosking (11 March 1922 - 13 January 1991) was an English rugby union international.

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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]

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References

  1. Simpson, Tony (24 December 1997). "Class of '39 stake claim to fame". The Daily Telegraph .
  2. "English Who's Who". Western Mail . 21 January 1950.
  3. "Birth of an uncapped Lion". ESPNscrum .