Nicholas Greenstock (born 3 November 1973 in

Dubai Dubai (Help:IPA/English, /duːˈbaɪ/ Help:Pronunciation respelling key, ''doo-BYE''; Modern Standard Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic: ; Emirati Arabic, Emirati Arabic: , Romanization of Arabic, romanized: Help:IPA/English, /diˈbej/) is the Lis ...

) is a former

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footballer, who won four caps for England during 1997 at

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. He played club rugby for

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, Harlequins,

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and Staines. Educated at

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prep school and later

Sherborne School Sherborne School is a full-boarding school for boys aged 13 to 18 located beside Sherborne Abbey in the Dorset town of Sherborne. The school has been in continuous operation on the same site for over 1,300 years. It was founded in 705 AD by Ald ...

, he is the son of Sir

Jeremy Greenstock Sir Jeremy Quentin Greenstock (born 27 July 1943) is a British retired diplomat, active from 1969 to 2004. Life and career Greenstock was educated at Harrow School and at Worcester College, Oxford. He was an assistant master at Eton College f ...

, a former high-ranking British diplomat and the former United Kingdom Ambassador to the United Nations. Nick retired from full-time professional rugby in 2002, but played part-time with Harlequins and then London Irish 2002-2004 whilst working for the Royal Bank of Scotland. Nick left the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2010, and is Managing Director and a founder partner o
Gatehouse Advisory Partners
a geopolitical consultancy established with his father Sir Jeremy Greenstock and Sir David Manning. Nick is married and has two children.

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English rugby union players 1973 births Living people Wasps RFC players London Irish players Harlequin F.C. players England international rugby union players Sportspeople from Dubai Rugby union centres {{England-rugbyunion-bio-1970s-stub