Osbert Mackie
| Full name | Osbert Gadesden Mackie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 23 August 1869 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Wakefield, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 25 January 1927 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Redcar, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Haileybury School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Clare College, Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| ?-1895 1895–? ? 1898 |
Wakefield Trinity Cambridge University R.U.F.C. Yorkshire Barbarian F.C. |
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| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1896 1897–1898 |
British Isles XV England |
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(7) (0) |
Osbert Gadesden Mackie (23 August 1869 – 25 January 1927) was an English rugby union centre and Anglican priest. Mackie played club rugby for Wakefield Trinity and Cambridge University and county rugby for Yorkshire. Mackie played international rugby for the British Isles XV on their 1896 tour of South Africa and on the return from Africa he was awarded two caps for the English team.
Mackie was born in Wakefield in 1869 to Colonel E. A. B. Mackie of Kirkthorpe and was educated at Haileybury School before entering Clare College, Cambridge in 1895 receiving his BA in 1898.
Before entering Cambridge, Mackie set up a business in Hamburg and in 1891 he had businesses in Hull and Wakefield, relinquishing them in 1895 to become an undergraduate student. In 1899 he was ordained a deacon at Ripon Cathedral and in 1901 was ordained a priest. Mackie was a Curate of Leeds in 1901 and from 1899 to 1913 he became the Vicar of St Paul's in Middlesbrough. After leaving Middlesbrough he was the Rector of Guisborough, a post he held from 1922 until his death in 1927.
He first played for Wakefield Trinity before resigning the captaincy after the schism in rugby that saw the formation of the Northern Union and the move of Wakefield Trinity, who had been the principal rugby club in the city, to the new code of Rugby League.
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