Rowland Byers | |
Full Name: | Rowland Morrow Byers |
Birth Date: | 18 June 1905 |
Birth Place: | Belfast, Ireland |
Death Place: | Birchwood |
Position: | Three-quarter |
Repyears1: | 1928–29 |
Repcaps1: | 5 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Rowland Morrow Byers (18 June 1905 — 26 September 2000) was an Irish international rugby union player.
Byers was the second-born son of academic and physician Professor Sir John Byers. He grew up in Belfast, attending Campbell College, then pursued further studies at the University of Oxford.[1]
A three-quarter, Byers won Oxford blues as a centre in 1926, but his five Ireland caps came on the wing, across the 1928 and 1929 Five Nations Championships. He also played for Belfast club North of Ireland.[2]
Byers was steward of the Turf Club in Dublin.[3]