Rugby player
Charles Ronald Jacobs (28 October 1928 – 10 November 2002[1] ) was an English Rugby Union player. He played at prop for Northampton and England . He went to Oakham School in Rutland , where he captained the first XV in 1945. He studied agriculture at the University of Nottingham.
Jacobs played a club record 470 games for Northampton over a 17-year period and appeared 29 times for England - captaining them for his final two games in 1964.[2]
After retiring from playing, Jacobs remained involved in Rugby and became president of the Rugby Football Union in 1983 and was tour manager during the controversial 1984 England rugby union tour of South Africa .
England national rugby union team captains
To 1900 To the First World War To the Second World War To the professional era To the present day
To 1900 To the First World War
1900-02: Francis Hugh Fox
1902-04: M Newsome
1904-07: G R Hill
1907-09: C A Crane
1909-11: T C Pring
1911-13: A M Crook
1913-14: A Hartley
To the Second World War
1919-20: A Hartley
1920-22: E Prescott
1922-23: R Henzell
1923-24: M F Waters
1924-25: W S Donne
1925-26: H E Ferens
1926-27: J Baxter
1927-28: P Royds
1928-29: V H Cartwright
1929-30, 1930-31, 1931-32: W T Pearce
1932-33: A D Stoop
1933-34: R F Oakes
1934-35: J Milnes
1935-37: J E Greenwood
1937-39: B A Hill
1939-40: G C Robinson
To the Professional Era
1945-47: J Daniell
1947-48: B C Hartley
1948-49: L G Brown
1949-50: E Watts
1950-51: W Wakefield
1951-52: H Cleaver
1952-53: P Holman
1953-54: J Brunton
1954-55: W C Ramsay
1955: L Clifford
1955-56: W B Gibbs
1956-57: L B "Ginger" Osborne
1957-58: A Marshall
1958-59: J Lawson
1959-60: J A Tallent
1960-61: A T Voyce
1961-62: R G S Hobbs
1962-63: C H Gadney
1963-64: A G Butler
1964-65: L Edwards
1965-66: A Walker
1966-67: D H Harrison
1967-68: J R Locker
1968-69: J T W Berry
1969-70: D T Kemp
1970-71: W Ramsay
1971-72: T A Kemp
1972-73: R. M. A. Kingswell
1973-74: M R Steele-Bodger
1974-75: K H Chapman
1975-76: G Tarn
1976-77: R E G Jeeps
1977-78: A Wharton
1978-79: S R Couchman
1979-80: A W Ramsay
1980-81: J MACG Kendall-Carpenter
1981-82: D K Brooks
1982-83: J V Smiths
1983-84: C R Jacobs
1984-85: A E Agar
1985-86: D W Shuttleworth
1986-87: A A Grimsdell
1987-88: John Burgess
1988-89: J R Simpson
1989-90: D L Sanders
1990-91: M A Pearey
1991-92: P G Yarranton
1992-93: D D Serfontein
1993-94: I D S Beer
1994-95: D H Easby
To the Present Day
1995-96: W J Bishop
1996-97: J T Richardson
1997-98: P G Brook
1998-99: P C Trunkfield
1999-2000: J H Addison
2000-01: D P Rogers
2001-02: R S Manock
2002-03: W G D Morgan
2003-04: R W Horner
2004-05: M S Phillips
2005-06: L C K Angel
2006-07: R A G Rogers
2007-08: B Taylor
2008-09: Brian Williams
2009-10: John Owen
2010-11: Richard Appleby
2011-12: Willie Wildash
2012-13: Paul Murphy
2015-16: Jason Leonard
2016-17: Peter Baines
2017-18: John Spencer
2018-19: Chris Kelly
2019-20: Peter Wheeler
2020-22: Jeff Blackett
2022-23: Nigel Gillingham
2023-24: Rob Briers
Barbarian team captains – international fixtures