Christopher John Simon Butcher (born 19 August 1960) is an English former
rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
international who represented
England
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in three Test matches.
Born in
Karachi
Karachi is the capital city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, largest city in Pakistan and 12th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a popul ...
, Butcher went to
St Peter's Catholic School, Bournemouth
St Peter's Catholic School is a co-educational Roman Catholic school located in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. It is run under the joint trusteeship of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth and a religious order of teachers, the De La Salle ...
and had two brothers (David and John) who were also good rugby players. He played for Middlesex at county level, club rugby for
Harlequins and also appeared with several overseas clubs in countries including Australia and the United States.
Butcher received representative honours with England Schools Under 19s and the England Under-23s, before earning a spot on the
1984 England tour of South Africa. He featured in both Tests against the Springboks, playing as a number eight. Later in the year he made a further Test appearance against the touring Wallabies at Twickenham.
See also
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List of England national rugby union players
This article represents a list of people who have played for the England national rugby union team, in the order that they received their first Cap (sport), cap. The list only includes players who have played in an official Test match (rugby union ...
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1960 births
Living people
English rugby union players
England international rugby union players
Rugby union flankers
Rugby union number eights
Middlesex County RFU players
Harlequin F.C. players
Sportspeople from Karachi
English expatriates in Pakistan
People educated at St Peter's Catholic School, Bournemouth
20th-century English sportsmen