Robert Lyle (rugby union)
Rugby union player from Northern Ireland
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Robert Knox Lyle (22 June 1884 — 25 June 1968) was an Irish international rugby union player.
Lyle was born at Muckamore Manse in Antrim and attended Dublin's St Andrew's College.[1]
A centre three-quarter, Lyle played rugby for Dublin University during his studies at Trinity College, from where he gained his two Ireland caps, appearing against Wales and France.[2]
Lyle went to Princeton Theological Seminary in the United States. After being ordained in 1913, Lyle served as a missionary in Manchuria. He was a minister at Greystones, County Wicklow from 1927 to 1952, as well as a one-time Moderator of Dublin Synod of the Presbyterian Church.[3]