Jonty Parkin
Godfrey Phillips Cigarette card featuring Jonty Parkin
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| Full name | Jonathan Parkin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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5 November 1894 Sharlston, Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
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| Died | 9 April 1972 (aged 77) England |
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| Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 11 st 3 lb (71 kg; 157 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Stand-off, Scrum-half | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As of 9 January 2011
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Jonathan "Jonty" Parkin (born in Sharlston, West Riding of Yorkshire) was an English rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. He toured Australia three times, twice as captain of Great Britain, earning 17 Test caps. He played at stand-off/five-eighth, or scrum-half/halfback, i.e. mumber 6, or 7, and also captained England for whom he made 12 appearances, as well as 17 for Yorkshire. Parkin gave the Wakefield club 17 years' service, playing 349 times.
Parkin joined Wakefield Trinity (captain) (Heritage № 207) as an 18-year-old in 1913. He was selected to go on the 1920 Great Britain Lions tour of Australasia. Parkin was the Landlord of the Griffin Hotel, Bull Ring, Wakefield circa-1921. Jonty Parkin played stand-off/five-eighth in Wakefield Trinity's 0-6 defeat by Hull F.C. in the 1914 Challenge Cup Final during the 1913–14 season at Thrum Hall, Halifax, in front of a crowd of 19,000, played scrum-half/halfback in Wakefield Trinity's 9-8 victory over Batley in the 1924 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1924–25 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 22 November 1924, and played scrum-half/halfback in the 3-10 defeat by Huddersfield in the 1926 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1926–27 season at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds on Wednesday 1 December 1926. Parkin played stand-off/five-eighth in Wakefield Trinity's 3-29 defeat by Australia in the tour match at Belle Vue, Wakefield on Saturday 22 October 1921. Parkin married Frances Akeroyd in 1926 and had six children, Patricia, Nadine, Willie (Bill), Geoff, Neal and Trevor, and 16 grandchildren.
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