Alfred Kitching
| Full name | Alfred Everley Kitching | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 6 May 1889 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Scarborough, Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 17 March 1945 (aged 55) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Bulmer, Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||
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Alfred Everley Kitching (6 May 1889 – 17 March 1945) was an English international rugby union player.[1]
Born in Scarborough, Kitching was Cambridge rugby blue and gained one England cap, taking the place of George Ward for a 1913 Five Nations match against Ireland at Lansdowne Road.[2]
Kitching later served as a Provincial Commissioner in Tanganyika Territory.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Lumley, E.K. (1976). Forgotten Mandate. C. Hurst. p. 97. ISBN 0903983346.
- ^ "Football". The Guardian. 7 February 1913.
- ^ "Deaths". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury. 20 March 1945.
External links
[edit]- Alfred Kitching at ESPNscrum