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# Peter Woodruff

Charles Garfield Woodruff (30 October 1920 – 1 November 2019) was an English international rugby union player.
Born and raised in Newport, Wales, Woodruff was known as "Peter" to his family, but also went by the name "Charlie". He enlisted in the Royal Air Force after finishing school, reaching the rank of flight lieutenant. In World War II, Woodruff flew Dakotas during the Normandy landings that dropped paratroopers over France.
Woodruff got recruited by Harlequins while playing for the London Civil Service. He was a Welsh trialist, but gained his four international caps for England, featuring on the wing in all four of their 1951 Five Nations fixtures, before losing his place to Ted Woodward. Other than England, Woodruff also made representative appearances for Barbarians, Gloucestershire, Kent, London Counties and Western Counties. He last played for Harlequins at the age of 42.
# Rupert Nurse

Rupert Theophilus Nurse (26 December 1910 – 18 March 2001) was a Trinidadian musician who was influential in developing jazz and Caribbean music in Britain, particularly in the 1950s.

## Life

He was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the only child of Arnold Nurse and Gertrude (née Small), and spent some of his childhood in Venezuela before returning to the island to complete his education. He absorbed local calypso music traditions, and started work as a teacher in Tobago. He taught himself piano, and learned arranging skills from a mail order Glenn Miller book, before returning around 1936 to Trinidad where he worked in an electronics business. He also learned to play the tenor saxophone and, with Guyanese saxophonist Wally Stewart, formed the Moderneers (or Modernaires), the first American-style big band in Trinidad. During the Second World War he played with visiting Americans on the island, and began writing jazz arrangements of calypsos.
He travelled to London in 1945, and began playing double bass with guitarist Fitzroy Coleman and pianist Cyril Jones in the Antilles jazz club near Leicester Square. He joined trumpeter Leslie "Jiver" Hutchinson's mostly-black band, with whom he played on radio and toured in Europe, before working with entertainer Cab Kaye in the Netherlands. He also increasingly worked with musicians newly arriving in Britain from the West Indies, including popular pianist Winifred Atwell, and Lord Kitchener (Aldwyn Roberts) and his band; and, along with Lauderic Caton, began experimenting with electronic instruments.
In 1953, Nurse was appointed as musical director of the Melodisc record label established by Emil Shalit, which increasingly sought to release records to appeal to Britain's growing Afro-Caribbean community. He led the label's house band, arranged and produced Kitchener's recordings, and recorded many other musicians of Caribbean origin, including jazz saxophonist Joe Harriott. He also continued to perform as a pianist, and became bandleader at the Sunset Club in Carnaby Street and then at the more up-market Sugar Hill club in St James's, where he met and later recorded with American jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams.
He increasingly used an electric piano and organ, and worked widely in clubs and restaurants in London as a solo performer and with other musicians including steel pan player Hugo Gunning, bassist Coleridge Goode, and pianists Iggy Quail and Russ Henderson. He also taught, devised arrangements for other musicians, and worked as a library cataloguer in London until 1976.
He retired to Arima, Trinidad, but continued to mentor musicians there and write arrangements for them. He died there in 2001, at the age of 90.
# Bob Wilkinson (rugby union)

Robert Michael Wilkinson (25 July 1951 – 1 February 2021) was an English rugby union player who played as a lock. Born in Luton, he attended St Albans School and the University of Cambridge, where he earned three Blues between 1971 and 1973. He played his club rugby for Bedford RFC, for whom he made more than 311 appearances in a 16-year career; he made his debut as a 17-year-old in 1969, and made his final appearance in 1985. He captained Bedford from 1976 to 1979. He also made 19 appearances for the Barbarians between 1972 and 1984, including the famous victory over New Zealand in Cardiff in 1973, scoring three tries; he served as captain for the Barbarians for matches against Cardiff RFC and Newport RFC on their Easter tour to South Wales in 1979. He earned six caps for England between May 1975 and March 1976.
Wilkinson died on 1 February 2021 after a short illness. He was survived by his wife Sally and their four sons.
# Squire Wilkins

Dennis Thomas Wilkins (26 December 1924 – 30 January 2012) was an English international rugby union player.

## Biography

Wilkins was born in Leeds and educated at Roundhay School.
A second row forward, Wilkins played with Roundhay RFC, Combined Services and the Royal Navy. He didn't miss a match for England between 1951 and 1953, winning 13 caps. Captaining Yorkshire to the 1952–53 championship, Wilkins was expected to became an England captain, but missed his opportunity due to the Korean War.
Wilkins, a Fleet Air Arm pilot, was lent to the Royal Australian Navy during the Korean War.
# John Watkins (rugby union)

John Arthur Watkins (born 28 November 1945) is an English former rugby union international.
Watkins was born in Gloucester and attended Linden Secondary Modern School.
A flanker, Watkins was capped seven times for England in the early 1970s, which included overseas wins against the Springboks and All Blacks, the former playing as a makeshift tighthead prop.
Watkins won three county championships with Gloucestershire and made 389 senior appearances for Gloucester RFC, captaining the club to the 1977–78 John Player Cup title.
In 2023, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Gloucester Rugby, John Watkins was inducted into the Gloucester Rugby Hall of Fame.
# Michael Wade (rugby union)

Michael Richard Wade, commonly known as Mike Wade (born 13 September 1937, in Leicester) was a rugby union centre who played 166 games for Leicester Tigers between 1955 and 1967; he represented England 3 times in 1962. He was a Cambridge University blue captaining the side to victory in 1961.
Wade made his Tigers debut against Bedford on Christmas Eve 1955 as an 18-year-old whilst still at school, playing 3 games in four days during the club's Christmas festival also featuring against Birkenhead Park and the Barbarians. He then dropped out of the side until the end of the season where he played 3 of the final four games.
He was captain of the Cambridge University rugby team in their undefeated 1961 season winning 14 games including the Varsity Match. Wade was then capped three times for England in the 1962 Five Nations, making his debut against Wales he also featured against Ireland and France but was dropped for the Calcutta Cup match against Scotland, his clubmate at Leicester Horrocks-Taylor taking his place.
Wade was Tigers captain in 1963/64 and again in 1964/65 however he suffered an injury to his knee cartilage in a game against Richmond in November 1965. Effectively forcing him to retire he played only 3 more games for the club in January and February in 1967.
# Clive van Ryneveld

Clive Berrangè van Ryneveld (19 March 1928 – 29 January 2018) was a South African cricketer who played in 19 Test matches between 1951 and 1958. He was the son of Reginald Clive Berrangè van Ryneveld (1891–1969) and Maria Alfreda Blanckenberg (1900–1994). Before his death in 2018, he was the oldest living South African cricket captain.
Van Ryneveld was also an international rugby union player. He represented Oxford University RFC in The Varsity Match in 1947, 1948 and 1949 and won four caps as a centre for the England national rugby union team, playing in all four matches of the 1949 Five Nations Championship. He scored three tries for England; one against Ireland and two against Scotland. He never represented South Africa at rugby union.
According to an obituary by Sport24 he "was one of South Africa's greatest all-round sportsmen who represented and captained South Africa at cricket and represented England at rugby during his time as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University (where his older brother Anthony was also a Rhodes Scholar), but he will be remembered equally for the role he played in trying to create a just society for all in South Africa".
E. W. Swanton, the English sports journalist and broadcaster, described Van Ryneveld as "just about the best centre three quarter of my time in English football ... he had speed, balance, jink and body swerve, lovely hands, a remarkably cool brain; and though comparatively light was indomitable in defence."
Van Ryneveld had a brief career in South African politics. In 1957, he was elected to Parliament as a member of the United Party, then the main opposition to the governing National Party which had introduced apartheid to South Africa. Two years later, in 1959, Van Ryneveld and eleven other MPs broke from the United Party to form the Progressive Party, which adopted a much more aggressive opposition to apartheid. The party's platform was ahead of its time, and in the 1961 general election all of the Progressive MPs except one, Helen Suzman, lost their seats.
Thereafter Van Ryneveld practised law. In his last years, he lived in Cape Town with his wife, Verity Anne Hunter (b. 25 September 1931). Their three children, Mark, Philip and Tessa, live in South Africa.
He published 20th Century All-rounder: Reminiscences and Reflections of Clive van Ryneveld in 2011.

## Death

Van Ryneveld died at the age of 89 on 29 January 2018.
# Martin Underwood

Adrian Martin Underwood (19 July 1940 - 9 June 2017) was an English rugby union international.
Underwood, the son of a farm labourer, was born and raised in Worcestershire, attending the King Charles I School in Kidderminster for his secondary education. He played his rugby union as a three quarter and was capped five times for England, primarily as a winger. While a Northampton player, he appeared in all of England's 1962 Five Nations Championship matches, then gained a further cap in 1964 after crossing to Exeter. He retired at the age of 23 due to injury and post rugby was a long serving physical education lecturer at St Luke's College Exeter.
# Nera Corsi

Nera Corsi (Florence, 1444 - Florence, 1507) was a noble Italian woman of the dynasty Corsi and Francesco Sassetti's only wife. Her tomb, located in the Sassetti Chapel of Santa Trinita in Florence, is the only female tomb in Florence for a married woman in the 15th century.

## Life

Nera was born in 1444 in the city of Florence to Piero di Domenico Corsi, from the branch of Domenico, a powerful banker.
In 1458, at the age of 15, she married the banker Francesco Sassetti, one of the most influential and wealthy in the city of Florence.
She was the mother, among other children, of Violanta Margherita, who married Neri Capponi, and Teodoro Sassetti.
In 1478, her husband Francesco Sassetti purchased rights to a funerary chapel in the basilica of Santa Trinita. Work on the Sassetti Chapel was undertaken by Domenico Ghirlandaio between 1483 and 1485. It features a fresco cycle, dedicated to Sassetti's namesake, St Francis, as well as portraits of his family and images of contemporary Florence and an altarpiece on the theme Adoration of the Shepherds. Francesco died in 1490 and Nera shortly thereafter, in 1507. She was buried in the tomb that had been built for her years before by Giuliano da Sangallo, which was unusual for the customs of the time since women did not usually have tombs or chapels dedicated in their honor. After that, Nera's tomb was the only woman's tomb not only in Florence but in whole of Italy from the 15th century, becoming a historical and cultural landmark.
# Kendrick Stark

Kendrick Stark (1904–1988) was a rugby union international who represented England from 1927 to 1928.

## Early life

Kendrick Stark was born on 18 August 1904 in Edmonton.

## Rugby football

Stark made his international debut on 15 January 1927 at Twickenham in the England vs Wales match. Of the 9 matches he played for his national side he was on the winning side on 7 occasions. He played his final match for England on 17 March 1928 at Twickenham in the England vs Scotland match.
# Steve Smith (rugby union, born 1951)

Stephen James Smith (born 22 July 1951) is a former England international rugby union footballer and was educated at The King's School, Macclesfield. In 1980 he played in all four matches in England's Grand Slam victory and was called up as a replacement to the 1980 British Lions tour to South Africa but did not play a game; he sat on the bench for the final international. He became a fully-fledged Lion on the 1983 British Lions tour to New Zealand when joining the tour as a replacement for the injured Nigel Melville. He played club rugby for Sale and was on the winning team at the Glengarth Sevens whilst playing for Loughborough University.
In 1987 he founded the Cotton Traders clothing business with his former club and national teammate Fran Cotton. In 2008 Cotton Traders was forced to pull out of Burma after an investigation by the Burma Campaign UK uncovered the company was sourcing clothing from Burma.
Steve Smith was employed by ITV as a co-commentator with John Taylor of the Rugby World Cup, from 1991 to 2003. He was co-commentator to Taylor when England won the World Cup Final in 2003.
# Nick Silk

Nicholas Silk (born 26 May 1941) is an English former international rugby union player.
Born in Lewes, Sussex, Silk was educated at Lewes Grammar School and the University of Oxford.
Silk, a flanker, held many leadership roles throughout his career, captaining England Schoolboys, British Universities, Oxford University and Sussex. He also captained England once in a trial match.
In 1965, Silk appeared for England in all four of their Five Nations matches.
# John Scott (rugby union, born 1954)

John Scott (born 28 September 1954) is a former rugby union international who represented England from 1978 to 1984.

## Rugby career
### International record

Debut: 21 January 1978 –v- France (Paris) lost 15–6 (FN) (Aged: 23)
Final appearance: 9 June 1984 –v- South Africa (Johannesburg) lost 35–9 (Aged: 28)
Career Record: P34, W13, D3, L18. Points: 4 (1 Try)
English Caps 1978–84
* 1978 France (Paris) L 15 – 6
* 1978 Wales (Twickenham) L 9 – 6
* 1978 Scotland (Murrayfield) W 15 – 0
* 1978 Ireland (Twickenham) W 15 – 9
* 1978 New Zealand (Twickenham) L 16 – 6
* 1979 Scotland (R) (Twickenham) D 7 – 7
* 1979 Ireland (Dublin) L 12 – 7
* 1979 France (Twickenham) W 7 – 6
* 1979 Wales (Cardiff) L 27 – 3
* 1979 New Zealand (Twickenham) L 10 – 9
* 1980 Ireland (Twickenham) W 24 – 9
* 1980 France (Paris) W 17 – 13
* 1980 Wales (Twickenham) W 9 – 8
* 1980 Scotland (Murrayfield) W 30 – 18
* 1981 Wales (Cardiff) L 21 – 19
* 1981 Scotland (Twickenham) W 23 – 17
* 1981 Ireland (Dublin) W 10 – 6
* 1981 France (Twickenham) L 16 – 12
* 1981 Argentina (Buenos Aires) D 19 – 19
* 1981 Argentina (Buenos Aires) W 12 – 6
* 1982 Ireland (Twickenham) L 16 – 15
* 1982 France (Paris) W 27 – 15
* 1982 Wales (Twickenham) W 17 – 7
* 1983 France (Twickenham) L 19 – 15
* 1983 Wales (Cardiff) D 13 – 13
* 1983 Scotland (Twickenham) L 22 – 12
* 1983 Ireland (Dublin) L 25 – 15
* 1983 New Zealand (Twickenham) W 15 – 9
* 1984 Scotland (Murrayfield) L 18 – 6
* 1984 Ireland (Twickenham) W 12 – 9
* 1984 France (Paris) L 32 – 18
* 1984 Wales (Twickenham) L 24 – 15
* 1984 South Africa (Port Elizabeth) L 33 – 15
* 1984 South Africa (Johannesburg) L 35 – 9
(R) = Replacement
Scott also played for the World XV against Argentina in Buenos Aires, scoring a try in a 36 - 22 loss.

## Family and later life

Married to Oonagh, they have two children, Liam and Gemma. Scott is currently director of an embroidery company in Bessemer Road, Cardiff.
# Gordon Sargent (rugby union)

Gordon Alan Frank Sargent (18 October 1949 - 25 June 2013) was an English rugby union international.
Sargent grew up in the town of Lydney near Gloucester and attended Lydney Secondary School.
A prop, Sargent spent nine seasons at his hometown club Lydney RFC, before crossing to Gloucester in 1976. He featured in two John Player Cup title wins at Gloucester and was a Gloucestershire county captain. His only England cap was earned off the bench against Ireland at Lansdowne Road in the 1981 Five Nations, after an injury to Phil Blakeway.
# Bev Risman

Augustus Beverley Walter Risman OBE (23 November 1937 – 22 June 2023) was an English rugby union and rugby league player and rugby league coach. A dual-code international, he played rugby union for England and the British Lions, and rugby league for Great Britain.

## Background

Bev Risman was born in Salford, Lancashire, England.
Risman was the son of the rugby league player Gus Risman, the older brother of the rugby league player John Risman, and the father of John M. Risman, who was the first open double Blue. He achieved his double Blue at the University of Oxford, in both the rugby union Varsity Match, and the 1984 rugby league Varsity Match.

## Playing career

Bev Risman played rugby union at fly-half for England (8 Test appearances) and for the British Lions (4 Test appearances). His international début was in 1959 for England against Wales. His last international rugby union appearance was in 1961.
Switching codes, he played for Leigh, Leeds and Lancashire. He won both the Challenge Cup and Championship with Leeds and represented Great Britain in five Test appearances. He captained the Great Britain squad in the 1968 Rugby League World Cup where he earned three of his caps.

## Coaching career

After retiring he became involved in coach education, the development of the game in the South of England and the organisation of student rugby league. He was inducted to the rugby league Roll of Honour in 2005, and was elected President of the Rugby Football League in 2010. He was replaced by Jim Hartley in 2011.

## Personal life and death

Risman was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to rugby league.
Risman died on 22 June 2023, at the age of 85.
# Laurie Rimmer

Laurance Ivor Rimmer (31 May 1935 - 31 May 2012) was an English rugby union international.
Rimmer, born in Liverpool, boarded at Birkenhead School and read geography at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
An Oxford University blue, Rimmer was called up by England while playing for Bath in 1961, debuting as a flanker against the touring Springboks at Twickenham. He played all fours Tests of the 1961 Five Nations Championship.
Rimmer served as headmaster of Framlingham College from 1971 to 1989.
# Paul Rendall

Paul Anthony George Rendall (18 February 1954 – 13 June 2023) was an English rugby union player. He played as a prop.
Nicknamed "the Judge", Rendall played for London Wasps.
Rendall had 28 caps for England, from 1984, when he was already 30 years old, to 1991, without ever scoring. He played at the Five Nations Championship for 6 seasons, in 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1990. He played at the 1987 Rugby World Cup, in three games, and at the 1991 Rugby World Cup, in one game.
Rendall was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2022, and died on 13 June 2023, at the age of 69.
# Derek Prout

Derek Henry Prout (10 November 1942 - 27 July 2005) was an English rugby union international.
A winger from Launceston, Cornwall, Prout featured in 41 county matches for county. He played rugby for Loughborough Colleges during his tertiary studies in the early 1960s, before joining Northampton in 1967.
Prout was capped twice by England in the 1968 Five Nations, for matches against Wales and Ireland at Twickenham, both of which ended in a draw. He shared his Test debut with future England captain Bob Hiller.
Following his England caps, Prout continued at Northampton until 1971, then had a short stint with Harlequins.
Prout, a teacher by profession, coached Trojans and Hampshire.
# Ivor Preece

Ivor Preece (15 December 1920 – 14 March 1987) was an English rugby union footballer who represented and captained England Schools, England and Coventry. He is the only Coventry RFC player to have achieved this accolade. He was selected to play with the British and Irish Lions, on their tour to New Zealand and Australia in 1950.
Born in Coventry in Warwickshire (now in the West Midlands), he attended Broad Street School, Foleshill, Coventry playing in the schools successful side winning the Coventry F.C Shield one of the oldest trophies played for in schoolboy rugby throughout the world being established in 1897. Once his playing career was over he still dedicated himself to the game of rugby union serving as president for Coventry Schools, Warwickshire RFU, Coventry R.F.C. and Broadstreet RFC from 1970 until his death in 1987. Preece's son, Peter Preece, was also an England rugby union international who played for Coventry - he was capped 12 times between 1972 and 1976.
Broadstreet RFC honoured Preece by naming their ground the Ivor Preece Field after him.

## International matches played

England
* Ireland 1948, 1950, 1951
* Scotland 1948, 1949, 1950
* France 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951
* Wales 1950, 1951

## British Lions

* New Zealand 1950
Lions 1950 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia
# Syd Newman

Sydney Charles Newman (27 July 1919 – 2 June 1990) was a South African-born England rugby union representative.
Born and raised in South Africa, Newman was a fullback, capped three times for England while in the country to study at the University of Oxford, where he was a rugby blue. He also played for Moseley.
Newman made his England debut in their 1947 Five Nations win over France at Twickenham. He started the 1948 season as England's fullback in the one-off Test against Australia and two weeks later gained his third cap in a Five Nations match against Wales. His first-minute penalty goal in the Wales match, a difficult shot from distance under heavy rain, was England's only score in a 3–3 draw that secured their only points of the campaign.
# Steve Meikle

Stephen Spencer Churchill Meikle (6 July 1905 – 4 June 1960) was an English international rugby union player.
Born in West Derby, Liverpool, Meikle was the elder brother of England wing three-quarter Graham Meikle and joined his local side Waterloo at age 18. His solitary England cap came as a stand-off in a 1929 Calcutta Cup match against Scotland at Murrayfield, forming a partnership with fellow debutant Eddie Richards.
Meikle was managing director of a ship painting company and served as a Lancashire selector. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning in his car in 1960 at the age of 54. A verdict of suicide was recorded by the coroner.