| Charlie Hannaford | |
| Birth Name: | Ronald Charles Hannaford |
| Birth Date: | 1944 10, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England |
| Ru Position: | No. 8 |
| Repcaps1: | 3 |
| Reppoints1: | 3 |
| Repyears1: | 1971 |
| University: | Durham and Cambridge |
Ronald Charles Hannaford is an English educator and former rugby union international who represented England in the 1971 Five Nations.[1]
Hannaford attended The Crypt School in Gloucester and then studied at Durham University, where one of his contemporaries on the university team was future England international Peter Dixon.[2] [3]
He came close to being dismissed from university after an academically disastrous second year, but was saved by the intervention of Zoologist David Barker.[4] After graduating from Durham with a 2:1 he continued his education at Churchill College, Cambridge, and represented Cambridge University R.U.F.C.[5] Hannaford taught Biology at Sherborne School (1968–1970), and later at Clifton College and Millfield.[6] He moved to New Zealand in 1975, but eventually returned to England where he worked at Rendcomb College (1983–1988) and then at Seaford College as headmaster.[7] [8] By 1997 he was reportedly retired in France.
He made his test debut against Wales, scoring a try in a 22–6 defeat. His final international appearance at test level came against France in the same tournament. He later toured the Far East with England, playing against Japan.