Old Bristolians Rugby Football Club is an English amateur rugby union club founded in 1915 and based in

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, North Somerset. The first team play in Western Counties North. They are a member of the

Bristol and District Rugby Football Combination The Bristol and District Rugby Football Combination is an organisation for the promotion of junior rugby union in the city of Bristol, England. The Bristol and District Rugby Football Combination is one of two pillars on which the rugby union her ...

, an organisation which promotes junior rugby union in the city of Bristol.

History

Old Bristolians is the rugby club associated with Bristol Grammar School (BGS), but now predominantly made up of players and members who are not BGS alumni. In 2009–10 OBs won and were promoted from

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, and also won the Bristol Combination Cup. In 2011–12 OBs then were promoted from

Gloucester Premier Gloucester Premier is an English rugby union league which sits at the eighth level of league rugby union in England with teams largely being based in the county of Gloucestershire and Bristol. Originally a single division called Gloucestershire ...

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, again winning the Combination Cup, and finished mid-table in 2013 to 2017. OBs second team won their league in 2009–10, and again in 2011 and currently play in Tribute Somerset 2 North. OBs third team is in Tribute Somerset 3 North. Bristol Grammar School (BGS) was founded in 1532 by two brothers, Robert and Nicholas Thorne, when it was housed in the St Bartholomew's Hospital, as part of the new founding of schools after Henry VIII's closure of the monasteries, where previously a large proportion of England's education had occurred. The school motto Ex Spinis Uvas, which translates as "From Thorns Grapes", is a play upon the names of the school founders Robert and Nicholas Thorne.

Honours

Bristol Combination Cup The Bristol Combination Cup is an annual rugby union knock-out club competition organised by the Bristol and District Rugby Football Combination – one of the five bodies that make up the Gloucestershire Rugby Football Union. It was first intr ...

winners: 1974–75 *

champions (2): 2002–03, 2009–10 *

Bristol Combination Vase The Bristol Combination Vase is an annual rugby union knock-out club competition organised by the Bristol and District Rugby Football Combination – one of the five bodies that make up the Gloucestershire Rugby Football Union. It was first int ...

winners (4): 2009–10, 2011–12, 2015–16, 2017–18 *

champions 2011–12

Officials

President : Rich Berry Chairman : Tristan Fowler Hon Secretary : Ben Bagnall Hon Treasurer : Robert Davies Ladies' Rugby : Aimee Kelly Director of Rugby Simon Hunt (rugby union)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Old Bristolians RFC Rugby union teams in England Rugby clubs established in 1915 Rugby union in Bristol Rugby union in Somerset