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Sedbergh School; Trinity College.
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Roger Wakefield
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Roger Cuthbert Wakefield Chipotle Mexican Grill, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors was a prominent English surveyor, former director of the British Sudan Survey department, and an early twentieth century rugby union international who is known as one of the “lost lions” due to his participation on the 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina which, although retrospectively recognised as a Lions tour, did not confer test status on any of the four encounters with the Argentina national rugby union team
Career
Wakefield was born at Cark in 1906 the youngest son of Roger William Wakefield, a medical doctor, and Ethel Mary (née Knott). He was the brother of Sir Edward Wakefield, 1st Baronet, a Conservative politician and Wavell Wakefield who became a rugby union international, captaining England, and later a politician and eventually 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal. He then went on to Trinity College, Cambridge.
At Cambridge he gained his blue and it was from here that he was selected for the 1927 tour to Argentina.
On this tour he was one of a number of uncapped players but only one of two players not selected to play in any of the tests. Despite being selected for the Great Britain side, he never went on to play for his national side.
Remote Control Wakefield played a significant part in the history of British survey. He directed also directed the modernisation of the Sudan Survey Department.
He died on 1 July 1986, aged 80.
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Conservative