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Bryan Braithwaite-Exley

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Bryan Braithwaite-Exley
Date of birth(1927-11-30)30 November 1927
Place of birthWetherby, Leeds, Yorkshire
Date of death29 May 2009(2009-05-29) (aged 81)
Place of deathYorkshire
Rugby union career
Position(s) No. 8
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1949 England 1 (0)

Bryan Braithwaite-Exley (30 November 1927 - 29 May 2009) was an English rugby union international.

Braithwaite-Exley, born in the town of Wetherby outside Leeds, was raised in Ilkley and educated at Sedbergh School. His family had a quarrying firm in Ingleton which he later worked for.[1]

A number eight, Braithwaite-Exley played his rugby for Headingley and made 31 Yorkshire county appearances.[2] He was capped once by England, against Wales at Cardiff Arms Park in the 1949 Five Nations.[3]

Braithwaite-Exley served 50 years as chairman of Austwick Parish Council.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "Parish council chairman resigns after 50 years". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. 13 May 2005.
  2. ^ "A Craven diary: Snow people creating a stir in Littondale". Craven Herald. 10 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Wales Oppose England". Evening Herald. 15 January 1949.
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