Christopher Stanger-Leathes | |
Birth Name: | Christopher Francis Stanger-Leathes |
Birth Date: | 9 May 1881 |
Birth Place: | Kensington, Middlesex, England |
Death Place: | Gosforth, Northumberland, England |
Ru Position: | Fullback |
Ru Amateurclubs: | Northumberland Northern |
Ru Nationalteam: | British Isles |
Ru Nationalyears: | 1904 1905 |
Ru Nationalcaps: | 1 1 |
Ru Nationalpoints: | (0) (0) |
Occupation: | Managing director |
Christopher Francis Stanger-Leathes (9 May 1881 - 27 February 1966) was an English international rugby union player.
Stanger-Leathes was born at Kensington in May 1881. He was educated at Sherborne School, where he played for the school cricket team.[1] He played rugby union at amateur level for Northumberland and Northern.[2] He toured Australia and New Zealand with the British Isles rugby union team in 1904,[3] playing one Test match against Australia at Sydney.[4] The following year he played a second Test match, this time for England against Ireland at Cork in the 1905 Home Nations Championship.[4] Stanger-Leathes also played cricket at minor counties level for Northumberland, making 99 appearances in the Minor Counties Championship between 1903 - 1929.[5] By profession he was a managing director at the ship ventilation manufacturers and sheet iron engineers Brown and Hood.[6] He died at Gosforth in February 1966.[1] His brother was the first-class cricketer Hugh Stanger-Leathes.