SeaJayPea Joined: 28/03/2005 Posts: 1182 Favourite Category: Other Sports

I have a 1992/3 Rothmans Rugby Union Yearbook here. There was an S V Perry who played seven matches for England while at Cambridge University and Waterlooville. But his first game wasn't until 1947. That makes it rather unlikely.

There's only one other Perry in this edition, and he has the initials DG, played for Bedford and didn't start his England career until 1963.

I suppose the first one's a possibility if perhaps you don't have the correct birth year.

The other thing is, as he's from the north, would he have played Rugby League, perhaps?
Good luck with your search

Question Author: kbtoonfan Joined: 24/10/2007 Posts: 4 Favourite Category: Rugby

Thanks SeaJayPea. I found S V Perry's biography on the internet and it would seem that he is the son of the S Perry born in 1907. My enquiry was more genealogical than purely sporting. With your help I have found an England rugby player in my family tree. Cheers!

SeaJayPea Joined: 28/03/2005 Posts: 1182 Favourite Category: Other Sports

He did more than just play rugby, if this is him

http://www.biochemist.com/bio/02803/0032/028030032 .pdf

Question Author: kbtoonfan Joined: 24/10/2007 Posts: 4 Favourite Category: Rugby

Yes, that's him. Thanks again.