For the Australian dual-code international rugby footballer, see Bob Stuart (rugby)

Bob Stuart (rugby)

Robert Stuart was an Australian rugby union and rugby league player and represented his country at both sports - a dual-code rugby international....

Robert Charles "Bob" Stuart (28 October 1920, Dunedin

Dunedin

Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...

 – 11 May 2005) was one of the most well known and admired sportsman in New Zealand. He was given a lifetime service award by the International Rugby Board immediately after the World Cup

Rugby World Cup

The Rugby World Cup is an international rugby union competition organised by the International Rugby Board and held every four years since 1987....

 in 2003.

Career

Bob Stuart was educated at St. Kevin's College, Oamaru

St. Kevin's College, Oamaru

St Kevin's College in Oamaru, New Zealand was founded in 1927. It is a Catholic school run by the Christian Brothers and Dominican Sisters for boaders and day students...

 and at Massey University

Massey University

Massey University is one of New Zealand's largest universities with approximately 36,000 students, 20,000 of whom are extramural students.The University has campuses in Palmerston North , Wellington and Auckland . Massey offers most of its degrees extramurally within New Zealand and internationally...

 in Manawatu, New Zealand, where he honed his rugby skills and became an agricultural economist.

As a Fleet Air Arm lieutenant, he spent much of WWII

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 on patrol on corvettes in the Atlantic as commander of naval vessels in and around the United Kingdom.

In 1953 he was All Black captain for the tour of the British Isles

British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe that include the islands of Great Britain and Ireland and over six thousand smaller isles. There are two sovereign states located on the islands: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and...

. In 1956 he was manager of the All Blacks in the South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

n tour. During the 1970s, he was a member of the New Zealand Rugby Union board.

External links

• Guardian obituary for Bob Stuart