John Brett (rugby union)

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| name = John Brett

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| full_name = John Alfred Brett

| birth_date = {{birth date|1915|10|26|df=y}}

| birth_place = Wetherby, Yorkshire, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1996|08|10|1915|10|26|df=y}}

| death_place = Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

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| occupation = Schoolmaster

| school = Durham School

| university = St Edmund Hall, Oxford

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| position = Prop

| repyears1 = 1936

| repteam1 = {{nrut|British Lions}}

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John Alfred Brett (26 October 1915 – 10 August 1996) was an English international rugby union player.

Brett, the son of a solicitor, was born in Wetherby, Yorkshire and educated at Durham School.{{cite journal |title=John Alfred Brett |journal=Dunelmian |date=1995–96 |page=93}}

A prop, Brett featured in eight fixtures for the British Lions on the 1936 tour to Argentina, including the one-off match against the Pumas. He captained Oxford University in the 1937 Varsity Match, while a pupil of St Edmund Hall.{{cite web |title=#280 John Brett |url=https://www.lionsrugby.com/player/?PlayGuid=JB287856 |website=British & Irish Lions}}

Brett served with the Royal Artillery during World War II and was left with a glass eye after being badly injured in Normandy. From 1958 to 1967, Brett was the Headmaster of Durham School.{{cite news |title=Old boy of school to be head |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/802254582 |work=Evening Chronicle |date=17 September 1957}}