Geoff Hosking
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Full nameGeoffrey Robert d'Aubrey Hosking
Born11 March 1922
St Thomas, Devon, England
Died13 January 1991 (aged 68)
Dover, Kent, England
Position
Lock
| Full name | Geoffrey Robert d'Aubrey Hosking | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 11 March 1922 St Thomas, Devon, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 13 January 1991 (aged 68) Dover, Kent, England | ||||||||||||||||
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Geoffrey Robert d'Aubrey Hosking (11 March 1922 - 13 January 1991) was an English rugby union international.
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]