Godfrey Pinion Explained

Godfrey Pinion
Birth Date:13 September 1884
Birth Place:Belfast, Ireland
Death Place:Belfast, Northern Ireland
Position:Fly-half
Repyears1:1909
Repcaps1:4
Reppoints1:2

Godfrey Pinion (13 September 1884 — 7 December 1956) was an Irish international rugby union player.

Pinion was educated at Methodist College Belfast and earned Ulster Schools representative honours. Soon after finishing school, Pinion relocated to Liverpool, where he was at first employed by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company.[1]

A fly-half, Pinion played rugby for Liverpool and Birkenhead Park from 1904 to 1909, making several appearances with Lancashire, before returning to Belfast. He competed for Belfast club Collegians and was capped four times as a fly-half for Ireland in the 1909 Home Nations Championship.[2]

Pinion worked as an executive in the insurance industry.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Appointment For Mr. G. Pinion . Belfast Weekly Telegraph . 25 December 1909.
  2. News: Obituary . . 11 December 1956.
  3. News: Death of former Irish rugby International . . 10 December 1956.