Gordon Gregory | |
Full Name: | Gordon George Gregory |
Birth Date: | 8 December 1907 |
Birth Place: | Taunton, England |
Death Place: | Newton Abbot, England |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Position: | Front-row |
Repyears1: | 1931–34 |
Repcaps1: | 13 |
Reppoints1: | 4 |
Gordon George Gregory (8 December 1907 – 4 December 1963) was an English international rugby union player.[1]
Gregory attended Huish's Grammar School in his native Taunton and Reading University.[2]
A front-row forward, Gregory played primarily as a hooker and was capped 13 times for England from 1931 to 1934, winning a Home Nations triple crown his final year. His England career also included a match against the Springboks at Twickenham. He played club rugby for Bath, Blackheath, Bristol and Taunton.[3]
Gregory served as an officer in the Hampshire Regiment during World War II and spent his post-war years farming, near Bridgwater, Somerset, and later Totnes, Devon.[2]