Robert Wood Hughes, known as Barney Hughes, was an Irish international
rugby union
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player.
A strong-scrummaging forward, Hughes played for Belfast club
North of Ireland and was capped 12 times for
Ireland
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from 1878 to 1886, with all of his matches coming against either England or Scotland.
Hughes served as president of the Northern Branch of the
IRU in 1889–90.
Outside of rugby, Hughes was a teacher, working as an assistant master at both
Lurgan College and the
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
The Royal Belfast Academical Institution is an independent grammar school in Belfast, Northern Ireland. With the support of Belfast's leading reformers and democrats, it opened its doors in 1814. Until 1849, when it was superseded by what today ...
, then later became senior inspector of schools.
See also
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List of Ireland national rugby union players
List of Ireland national rugby union players is a list of men who have played for the Ireland national rugby union team.
Note the list only includes men who have played in a Test match (which includes those who played against the 1888–89 New Z ...
References
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Year of birth missing
1927 deaths
Irish rugby union players
Ireland international rugby union players
Rugby union forwards
North of Ireland F.C. players
Rugby union players from Belfast