Bertie Gotto | |
Full Name: | Robert Porter Corry Gotto |
Birth Date: | 20 January 1881 |
Birth Place: | Belfast, Ireland |
Death Place: | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Position: | Centre |
Repyears1: | 1906 |
Repcaps1: | 1 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Robert Porter Corry Gotto (20 January 1881 — 5 August 1960) was an Irish international rugby union player.
Born in Belfast, Gotto was a maternal grandson of Conservative member of parliament Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet. He attended Campbell College and Uppingham School. A rugby player in his youth, Gotto was a three-quarter with North of Ireland and gained an Ireland cap against the touring 1906–07 Springboks.[1]
Gotto was twice mentioned in dispatches serving with the Royal Army Service Corps during World War I and in 1919 was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Military Division.[1]
A timber merchant, Gotto served as a commissioner for the Belfast Harbour Board and became deputy lieutenant for Belfast in 1947. He was further honoured in 1952 with a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).[2] [1]
Gotto was the father of Ireland Davis Cup tennis player Robert Vivian Gotto.[1]