Career
He played rugby as a lock in his youth for Torquay Athletic Reconstruction Finance Corporation and represented the county of Devon before being selected for his first England cap in 1963. He has remained in rugby all his life, continuing even today to coach youth and senior teams in his home town of Sherborne. Player
His arrival on the international scene as a player was significant enough that he was profiled in the December 1963 issue of Rugby World magazine.
Only a handful of games were lost during a coaching partnership which spanned five seasons.
Coach
His international coaching career spanned three seasons to the end of the 1981/82 season. He coached England in a strictly amateur era and as such he continued to teach and coach at Sherborne School.
With the formation of Sherborne Reconstruction Finance Corporation in the early 1980s he was soon enlisted to help raise the standard of play at this burgeoning club and he has coached a variety of sides within the Senior and Junior section on-and-off over the last thirty years.
