Christopher Stanger-Leathes

Christopher Stanger-Leathes

Birth name	Christopher Francis Stanger-Leathes
Date of birth	9 May 1881
Place of birth	Kensington, Middlesex, England
Date of death	27 February 1966(1966-02-27) (aged 84)
Place of death	Gosforth, Northumberland, England
Occupation(s)	Managing director
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fullback Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) Northumberland Northern () International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1904 1905 British Isles England 1 1 (0) (0)

Christopher Francis Stanger-Leathes (9 May 1881 – 27 February 1966) was an English international rugby union player.

Stanger-Leathes was born at Kensington in May 1881. He was educated at Sherborne School, where he played for the school cricket team. He played rugby union at amateur level for Northumberland and Northern. He toured Australia and New Zealand with the British Isles rugby union team in 1904, playing one Test match against Australia at Sydney. The following year he played a second Test match, this time for England against Ireland at Cork in the 1905 Home Nations Championship. Stanger-Leathes also played cricket at minor counties level for Northumberland, making 99 appearances in the Minor Counties Championship between 1903–1929. By profession he was a managing director at the ship ventilation manufacturers and sheet iron engineers Brown and Hood. He died at Gosforth in February 1966.

External links

• Christopher Stanger-Leathes at ESPNscrum