Birth name | Tommy Smyth[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 1 December 1884 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Belfast, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 19 May 1928 | (aged 43)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Paddington, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Ballymena Academy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Doctor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Smyth (1 December 1884 – 19 May 1928) was an Irish international, rugby union prop forward who played club rugby for Newport and Malone and invitational rugby with the Barbarians. He won fourteen caps for Ireland and was selected to captain the British Isles 1910 tour of South Africa, and played in two of the test games.