John Brett | |
Full Name: | John Alfred Brett |
Birth Date: | 26 October 1915 |
Birth Place: | Wetherby, Yorkshire, England |
Death Place: | Salisbury, Wiltshire, England |
Occupation: | Schoolmaster |
School: | Durham School |
University: | St Edmund Hall, Oxford |
Position: | Prop |
Repyears1: | 1936 |
John Alfred Brett (26 October 1915 – 10 August 1996) was an English international rugby union player.
Brett, the son of a solicitor, was born in Wetherby, Yorkshire and educated at Durham School.[1]
A prop, Brett featured in eight fixtures for the British Lions on the 1936 tour to Argentina, including the one-off match against the Pumas. He captained Oxford University in the 1937 Varsity Match, while a pupil of St Edmund Hall.[2]
Brett served with the Royal Artillery during World War II and was left with a glass eye after being badly injured in Normandy. From 1958 to 1967, Brett was the Headmaster of Durham School.[3]