John Matters | |
Full Name: | John Charles Matters |
Birth Place: | Stoke Damerel, Devon, England |
Death Date: | 24 April 1949 (aged 70) |
Death Place: | Limpsfield, Surrey, England |
Position: | Three-quarter |
Repyears1: | 1899 |
Repcaps1: | 1 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
John Charles Matters (1879 – 1949) was an English international rugby union player.
The son of a police constable, Matters was a Devonport Dockyard worker in his younger days and played rugby for Devonport Albion. He gained an England cap as a wing three-quarter against Scotland at Blackheath in 1899.[1]
Matters served with the Royal Navy in World War I and attained the rank of rear admiral.[2]