Robert Lyle | |
Full Name: | Robert Knox Lyle |
Birth Date: | 22 June 1884 |
Birth Place: | Antrim, Ireland |
Death Place: | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Position: | Centre |
Repyears1: | 1910 |
Repcaps1: | 2 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Robert Knox Lyle (22 June 1884 — 25 June 1968) was an Irish international rugby union player.
Lyle was born at Muckamore Manse in Antrim and attended Dublin's St Andrew's College.[1]
A centre three-quarter, Lyle played rugby for Dublin University during his studies at Trinity College, from where he gained his two Ireland caps, appearing against Wales and France.[2]
Lyle went to Princeton Theological Seminary in the United States. After being ordained in 1913, Lyle served as a missionary in Manchuria. He was a minister at Greystones, County Wicklow from 1927 to 1952, as well as a one-time Moderator of Dublin Synod of the Presbyterian Church.[3]