Roger Cuthbert Wakefield
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Roger Cuthbert Wakefield CMG, OBE, FRICS (born 1906) was a prominent English surveyor, former director of the British Sudan Survey department, and an early twentieth century rugby union international who is known as one of the lost lions due to his participation on the 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina which, although retrospectively recognised as a Lions tour, did not confer test status on any of the four encounters with the Argentina national rugby union team. Wakefield was born at Cark in 1906 the youngest son of Roger William Wakefield, a medical doctor, and Ethel Mary (née Knott). He…mehr

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Roger Cuthbert Wakefield CMG, OBE, FRICS (born 1906) was a prominent English surveyor, former director of the British Sudan Survey department, and an early twentieth century rugby union international who is known as one of the lost lions due to his participation on the 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina which, although retrospectively recognised as a Lions tour, did not confer test status on any of the four encounters with the Argentina national rugby union team. Wakefield was born at Cark in 1906 the youngest son of Roger William Wakefield, a medical doctor, and Ethel Mary (née Knott). He was the brother of Sir Edward Wakefield, 1st Baronet, a Conservative politician and Wavell Wakefield who became a rugby union international, captaining England, and later a politician and eventually 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal. Like his elder brother, he attended Sedbergh School in the West Riding of Yorkshire (now part of Cumbria).