Geoff Hosking | |
Birth Date: | 11 March 1922 |
Birth Place: | St Thomas, Devon, England |
Death Place: | Dover, Kent, England |
Position: | Lock |
Repyears1: | 1949–50 |
Repcaps1: | 5 |
Reppoints1: | 3 |
Geoffrey Robert d'Aubrey Hosking (11 March 1922 - 13 January 1991) was an English rugby union international.
Hosking was born in Exeter and educated at Cheltenham College.[1]
A captain with the Royal Marines, Hosking played rugby for the Navy, as well as Plymouth club Devonport Services.[2]
Hosking was capped five times by England as a lock in the 1949 and 1950 Five Nations campaigns. It was later discovered that he had been playing with a broken back through his England career, which required surgery.[3]