Birth name | Howard Marshall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 20 December 1870 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Sunderland, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 9 October 1929 | (aged 58)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Westminster, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Southgate House Barnard Castle School Norfolk County School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | Caius College, Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | medical doctor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Howard Marshall OBE (20 December 1870 – 9 October 1929)[1] was an English rugby union half-back who played club rugby for Blackheath and Richmond and was a member of the first official British Isles tour in 1891. Marshall played just one game for England, scoring a hat-trick of tries on his debut. It is thought, through historical records and the detective work of Sunderland based sport and social historian Keith Gregson, that Marshall sustained a severe knee injury which curtailed his rugby career.