Nigel Corbet Fletcher (3 August 1877 – 21 December 1951) was an English international rugby union player.
| Date of birth | 3 August 1877 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | St Pancras, London, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 21 December 1951 (aged 74) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Hampstead, London, England | ||||||||||||||||
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Born in St Pancras, London, Fletcher gained three rugby blues with Cambridge University in the late 1890s and was subsequently capped four times as a forward for England, from 1901 to 1903.[1]
Fletcher, a Hampstead physician, had a long association with St John Ambulance, which he joined as a surgeon in 1916. He was made a Commander of the Order of St John for his service and became their surgeon-in-chief in 1932.[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Old Rugby International Becomes Surgeon-In-Chief". Wokingham Times. 17 July 1936.
- ^ "Memorial Service To Dr. Fletcher". Hampstead News. 10 January 1952.
External links
edit- Nigel Corbet Fletcher at ESPNscrum