Robin Godfrey
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| name = Robin Godfrey
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| full_name = Robin Patrick Godfrey
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1931|09|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = Tilbury, Essex, England
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| school = Stonyhurst College
| university = Trinity College Dublin
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| position = Centre
| repyears1 = 1954
| repteam1 = {{nrut|Ireland}}
| repcaps1 = 2
| reppoints1 = 0
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Robin Patrick Godfrey (born 16 September 1931) is an English-born Ireland international rugby union player.{{cite news |title=Will is be Rimmer at fly half? |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/987140074 |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=5 September 1956}}
Born in Tilbury, Essex, Godfrey attended Stonyhurst College and was a member of their team which won a public schools sevens title. He was an England Schoolboys representative player. While studying at Trinity College Dublin, Godfrey would return to Lancashire during his vacations to play with the Waterloo club.{{cite news |title=Waterloo's Irish Cap |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19540220/531/0019 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=20 February 1954}}
Godfrey is of Irish descent on both sides of his family and prior to his Ireland caps had represented Munster against the 1953–54 All Blacks. He was capped twice for Ireland in 1954, debuting against Scotland at Belfast.{{cite news |title=Park double feature in Ireland |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/987447123 |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=16 February 1954}}
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Category:Irish rugby union players
Category:Ireland international rugby union players
Category:English people of Irish descent
Category:Rugby union players from Essex
Category:People educated at Stonyhurst College
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