Charles Bolton | |
Full Name: | Charles Arthur Bolton |
Birth Date: | 3 January 1882 |
Birth Place: | Kensington, England |
Death Place: | Eastbourne, England |
School: | Marlborough College |
University: | New College, Oxford |
Position: | Wing-forward |
Repyears1: | 1909 |
Repcaps1: | 1 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Charles Arthur Bolton (3 January 1882 – 23 November 1963) was an English international rugby union player.
Born in Kensington, Bolton was educated at Marlborough College and New College, Oxford.[1]
Bolton played rugby for United Services and was called up by England as a reserve for their match against the 1908–09 Wallabies, before gaining his only cap in a win over France at Leicester, utilised as a wing-forward.[2] [3]
A brigadier in the British Army, Bolton was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919.[1]
Bolton married the daughter of colonial official Sir Henry John Jourdain.[4]