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Trevor James Brewer (16 August 1930 – 15 July 2018) was a Welsh
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international player. He played for the
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on three occasions, once in 1950 and twice in 1955.


Life and rugby career

Brewer, who was born in Newport,
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and was educated at Newport High School, representing the school rugby team. He then represented his country at schoolboy level playing for the Welsh Secondary Schools team. He matriculated to
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where he studied chemistry. He was called into the
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for the match against
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in January 1950 whilst still a student at Oxford, and before he had won his "Blue" (as he had missed
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that year through injury). He played on the
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. Brewer did not play for Wales again until the 1954/1955 season, when he played in the matches against England and
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, scoring two tries against Scotland. He also played rugby for the Army,
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,
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(captaining the side) and the Welsh Academicals. He later worked for ICI and lived in Northern Ireland. He was the father of Nicola Brewer, former British High Commissioner to South Africa and former chief executive of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights. He died on 15 July 2018 at the age of 87.Trevor James Brewer Obituary
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References

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