| Full name | Laurance Ivor Rimmer | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1935-05-31)31 May 1935 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Liverpool, Lancashire, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 31 May 2012(2012-05-31) (aged 77) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England | ||||||||||||||||
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Laurance Ivor Rimmer (31 May 1935 - 31 May 2012) was an English rugby union international.
Rimmer, born in Liverpool, boarded at Birkenhead School and read geography at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
An Oxford University blue, Rimmer was called up by England while playing for Bath in 1961, debuting as a flanker against the touring Springboks at Twickenham. He played all fours Tests of the 1961 Five Nations Championship.
Rimmer served as headmaster of Framlingham College from 1971 to 1989.
See also
References
- "Pen Pictures Of The Two County Teams". Western Morning News. 11 March 1961.
- ^ Shenton, Kenneth (11 July 2012). "Laurie Rimmer: Headmaster and rugby international". The Independent.
- "Framlingham: Tributes to former college headmaster Laurie Rimmer who has died aged 77". East Anglian Daily Times. 7 June 2012.
External links
- Laurie Rimmer at ESPNscrum
- 1935 births
- 2012 deaths
- English rugby union players
- England international rugby union players
- Rugby union players from Liverpool
- Rugby union flankers
- Bath Rugby players
- Oxford University RFC players
- Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- People educated at Birkenhead School
- Heads of schools in England
- Schoolteachers from Merseyside
- Cheshire RFU players
- 20th-century English sportsmen