Jonty Parkin

Jonty Parkin

Cigarette card featuring Jonty Parkin
Personal information
Full name	Jonathan Parkin
Born	(1894-11-05)5 November 1894 Sharlston, Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died	9 April 1972(1972-04-09) (aged 77) Wakefield, England
Playing information
Height	5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Weight	11 st 3 lb (71 kg; 157 lb)
Position	Stand-off, Scrum-half
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1913–30 Wakefield Trinity 349 96 94 476 1930–32 Hull Kingston Rovers 57 11 28 89 Total 406 107 122 0 565 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 1919–28 Yorkshire 17 8 2 28 1921–28 England 12 6 5 28 1920–30 Great Britain 17 9 0 27
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Jonathan "Jonty" Parkin (1894–1972) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. One of the nine inaugural inductees of the Rugby Football League Hall of Fame, he toured Australia three times, twice as captain of Great Britain, earning 17 Test caps. Parkin played at stand-off or scrum-half, and also captained England for whom he made 12 appearances, as well as 17 for Yorkshire. Parkin gave the Wakefield Trinity club seventeen years' service, including victory in the 1924–25 Yorkshire Cup.