About Richard Finch
Lived 1857 – 1921 (aged 63). Richard Finch was a rugby union player.
Richard Tanner Finch (9 June 1857 – 12 January 1921) was an English international rugby union player.
Finch was educated at Sherborne School and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
A diminutive halfback, Finch gained four rugby blues with Cambridge University RFC. He captained them in the 1879–80 Varsity Match and kicked the winning drop goal.
Fnich was a long time medical superintendent of Fisherton House Asylum in Salisbury.
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Who was Richard Finch?
English international rugby union player
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Richard Finch was born on 9 June 1857.
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Richard Finch died on 12 January 1921.
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Richard Finch was a rugby union player.
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