Roger Hosen

Roger Wills Hosen (12 June 1933 – 9 April 2005) was an English rugby union player and cricketer.

Early life He was born in Mabe and he first played rugby for Penryn while still at Falmouth Grammar School.

Rugby International In 1955 Roger Hosen moved to Northampton, to teach at the grammar school, and was recruited to Northampton Saints. He played 250 games for the Saints, and scored 1,463 points.

Cornwall rugby and cricket Hosen also played rugby 54 times for Cornwall, as well as also appearing 64 times for Cornwall in the Minor Counties cricket competition. He was a right hand bat and right arm pace bowler and he captained the county team from 1963 to 1967 making 1,444 runs, with a highest score of 100 not out. He played one first-class match when selected for the Minor Counties XI against the South African tourists in 1965 at Jesmond where he dismissed the South African skipper Peter van der Merwe lbw for 8 which was his only first-class wicket. He was dismissed by Test left arm spinner Atholl McKinnon in both of his first-class innings for 0 & 2 respectively.

Retirement Roger Hosen then became master in charge of rugby at Cheltenham College in 1966 and subsequently, to cope with timetable clashes, he moved to Bristol. In the 1980s he retired from teaching and became landlord of the Seven Stars pub in Stithians, still turning out well into his fifties for the local rugby club. He died in Truro on 9 April 2005 aged 72.