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Charles Joseph Newbold DSO (12 January 1881 – 26 October 1946) was an

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rugby union international who played club rugby for

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and

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. He played six international games for

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between 1904 and 1905. During the First World War he served the

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in the

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Early life

Newbold was born in 1881 in Tunbridge Wells, England. One of eleven children, he was the second son of William Newbold (1828–1900) and Eleanor Isabel Newbold, née Fergusson (1862–1942) of

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, and was educated at Rose Hill in Tunbridge Wells and then

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. He entered

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in 1900 and was awarded his BA in 1903. On leaving Cambridge in 1904 he joined brewing firm

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, becoming one of their early chemists at the Guinness Research Laboratory. His eldest sister

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(1882–1933) was a noted

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and

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Rugby career

Newbold first came to note as a rugby player when he represented Cambridge University and won two sporting Blues, in 1902 and 1903. He won his first international cap while still a Cambridge player, representing England in the

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. He played in all three games of the 1904 campaign and was reselected for the 1905 Championship. After leaving university he joined Blackheath, and became a member of the invitational tourists, The Barbarians in 1903.

Military career and later life

After the outbreak of World War I, Newbold joined the Royal Engineers and reached the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was

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on three occasions and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. On 27 September 1924, he married Daphne Gertrude Persse, who served with the British Red Cross Society in both the First and Second World War. In 1925 Charles and Daphne moved to

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where they lived until early 1939 when they returned to

.Rhodesiana - Rhodesia Africana Society Sawyer, 1956 In 1941 Newold became the managing director of Guinness; and from 1942 to 1945 he was the chairman of the Brewers' Society.

References

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