Matthew Mullineux

Matthew Mullineux

Mullineux (far left), with Ernest Shackleton, (3rd from left) in 1916
Full name	Matthew Mullineux
Date of birth	(1867-08-08)8 August 1867
Place of birth	Barton-upon-Irwell, Eccles, England
Date of death	13 February 1945(1945-02-13) (aged 77)
Place of death	Kensington, England
University	Cambridge University
Occupation(s)	Military Chaplain
Rugby union career
Position(s) Scrum-half Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) National team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) 1896-1899 British Isles 2 (0)

Position(s)	Scrum-half
Amateur team(s)
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
National team(s)
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1896-1899	British Isles	2	(0)

Matthew Mullineux MC (8 August 1867 – 13 February 1945) was an English rugby union scrum-half who, although not capped for England, was selected for two British Lions tours. He gained one cap during the 1896 tour to South Africa and captained the 1899 tour of Australia. An Anglican minister, he later became a chaplain in the British Army, and was awarded the Military Cross for his actions during the First World War.

Mullineux was born in Barton-upon-Irwell, Eccles, Lancashire, though some sources record his birthplace as nearby Worsley, to Matthew Mullineux, an insurance-inspector, and his wife Elizabeth Derbyshire. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and then Matriculated to St John's College, Cambridge. He received his BA in 1896, and the next year was ordained as a Deacon at Southwark Cathedral. The next year he was ordained as a priest and took his orders at the Church of Mottingham, also becoming the Assistant Master at the nearby Royal Naval School in Eltham. On 9 May 1899 he left England for Australia as part of the British Isles rugby tour and left both his posts.