Rory Underwood
| Full name | Rory Underwood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 19 June 1963 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Middlesbrough, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 13 st 8 lb (86 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Barnard Castle School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable relative(s) | Tony Underwood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | RAF aviator, management consultant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Wing | ||
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| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1983-1997 1997-1998 |
Leicester Tigers Bedford Blues |
236 | ((670)) |
| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1984-1996 1989-1993 |
England British and Irish Lions |
85 6 |
((210) (5)) |
Rory Underwood MBE (born 19 June 1963) is an English former rugby union footballer who played wing for Leicester Tigers and the Royal Air Force. He represented England and the British and Irish Lions and is a former Royal Air Force pilot.
Underwood was born in Middlesbrough, England, of Chinese-English parentage. His father was a Yorkshire engineer who worked in Malaysia where he met and married Underwood's Chinese-Malaysian mother.
Underwood was educated at Barnard Castle School (with fellow rugby international Rob Andrew and infamous MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson), followed by initial officer training at RAF College Cranwell.
His early life was spent in Malaysia. His family moved to Yorkshire in 1976, but his father was posted to Singapore and did not rejoin the family for another three years.
In the RAF, he played for the Strike Command and main RAF rugby team. He flew as Flying Officer Underwood with 360 Sqn, an electronic countermeasures training squadron, on Canberras at RAF Wyton in Cambridgeshire. He then flew the Hawk with 100 Sqn also at Wyton. He took a ground-instruction job in 1995 at RAF Cranwell becoming a flight lieutenant, whilst playing for Leicester. He became station flight safety officer, then joined 55 Sqn (navigator training, now referred to as a weapon systems officer) on the twin-engined Dominie (British Aerospace 125), and continued in the RAF until 1999, although he could have stayed until 2001.
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