Richard Davey | |
Full Name: | Richard Frank Davey |
Birth Date: | 22 September 1905 |
Birth Place: | Paddington, England |
Death Place: | Bexhill, England |
Position: | Wing-forward |
Repyears1: | 1931 |
Repcaps1: | 1 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Richard Frank Davey (22 September 1905 – 24 May 1983) was an English international rugby union player.
Davey was born in Paddington and later lived in Teignmouth, Devon, where he played his early rugby.[1]
After moving to Leytonstone, Davey became the first player from the Essex club to gain an England cap, featuring as a wing-forward against Wales at Twickenham in the 1931 Five Nations Championship.[2] While in Essex, Davey made representative appearances for Eastern Counties.[3] He returned to Devon in 1934 after getting a job in Exeter.[4]