Full name | Henry Francis Spunner | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 1846 or 1847 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | County Tipperary, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 28 June 1903 (aged 56 or 57) | ||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Cork, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
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Henry Francis Spunner was an Irish international rugby union player.
Born in County Tipperary, Spunner was a foundation player for Wanderers, a club in Dublin. He gained three Ireland caps, playing as a halfback against England and Scotland in 1881, then as a centre three-quarter against Wales in 1884.[1]
Spunner left Dublin in the late 1880s and became a land agent in Cork.[2]