Geoff Hosking

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

Geoff Hosking

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

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

• List of England national rugby union players