Richard Geaves

{{short description|Mexican footballer (1854-1935)}}

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| fullname = Richard Lyon Geaves

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| position = Outside left

| birth_date = {{birth date|1854|05|06|df=y}}

| birth_place = Mexico City, Mexico

| death_date = {{death date and age|1935|03|21|1854|05|06|df=y}}

| death_place = Yateley, Hampshire{{cite web |url=http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamPlyrsBios/PlayersG/BioGeavesRL.html |title=Richard Geaves |website=England Football Online}}

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| nationalyears1 = 1875 |nationalcaps1 = 1 |nationalgoals1 = 0 |nationalteam1 =England

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Richard Lyon Geaves (6 May 1854 – 21 March 1935) was a footballer who made one appearance for England in an international against Scotland, playing as England's outside left on 6 March 1875.

He was born in Mexico. He attended multiple schools, including Harrow School, and attended Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He played for Clapham Rovers and Old Harrovians, joined the 14th Prince of Wales Yorkshire Regiment and became their captain six years later before he left them in 1881. He was the first Mexico-born player to represent England.{{cite web |url=http://www.iffhs.de/?3e1d08361d15a9774c8c03fcf80508 |title=A Mexican on the English national team |publisher=IFFHS |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307061146/https://iffhs.de/?3e1d08361d15a9774c8c03fcf80508 |archivedate=7 March 2012 |url-status=dead}}