Snipe Watson
| Full name | Robert Watson | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 7 May 1961 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Rathangan, County Kildare, Republic of Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
| University | Trinity College Dublin | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Clergy | ||||||||||||||||
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Robert "Snipe" Watson was an Irish international rugby union player.
A wing three-quarter, Watson played rugby for Wanderers and was capped once for Ireland, appearing against the touring Springboks at Lansdowne Road in 1912. He later served as president of Leinster Rugby.[1]
Watson was a chaplain to the forces in the later stages of World War I and received the Croix de Guerre. He became Canon of Kildare in 1944 and was Rector of Clonsast & Rathangan.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Leinster Rugby president". Belfast Telegraph. 9 October 1946.
- ^ "Rector of Dublin church". Belfast Telegraph. 8 May 1961.
External links
[edit]- Snipe Watson at ESPNscrum
Categories:
- 1961 deaths
- Irish rugby union players
- Ireland international rugby union players
- 20th-century Irish clergy
- Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
- Rugby union players from County Cork
- Wanderers F.C. (rugby union) players
- Rugby union wings
- British Army personnel of World War I
- Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)