About George Leather
Lived 1881 – 1957 (aged 75). George Leather was a British rugby union player.
George Leather (22 February 1881 – 2 January 1957) was an English international rugby union player.
A Leigh-born forward, Leather played his rugby with the Liverpool club and was a regular Lancashire representative, while also earning a solitary England cap against Ireland at Lansdowne Road in 1907.
Leather, an accountant, served as treasurer of the Liverpool Cricket Club and was a long-serving secretary of the Liverpool Playhouse theatre. He was also an executive on the Merseyside Hospitals Council and a Liverpool city magistrate.
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Who was George Leather?
rugby player
When was George Leather born?
George Leather was born on 22 February 1881.
When did George Leather die?
George Leather died on 2 January 1957.
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George Leather was a rugby union player.
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George Leather was British.
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