Gordon Bendon | |
Full Name: | Gordon John Bendon |
Birth Date: | 9 April 1929 |
Birth Place: | Lambeth, London, England |
Death Place: | Kingston-upon-Thames, London, England |
School: | King's College School |
Position: | Prop |
Repyears1: | 1959 |
Repcaps1: | 4 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Gordon John Bendon (9 April 1929 - 18 January 2001)[1] was an English international rugby union player.[2]
Born in Lambeth, Bendon was educated at King's College School in Wimbledon, London.[3]
Bendon spent his entire career with Wasps, which he joined as a back-row forward aged 17, before being made to play prop and making that position his own. He was a Middlesex county representative.[3]
In 1959, Bendon was capped four times playing for England in the Five Nations Championship.[4]
Bendon was married to actress Adrienne Scott, the daughter of film producer Edwin J. Fancey.[5]