{{Short description|English rugby union player and administrator}} {{EngvarB|date=August 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox rugby biography |name = Barron Kilner |fullname = Barron Kilner |nickname = |image = |imagesize = |caption = |birth_date = 11 October 1852 |birth_place = Thornhill Lees, England |death_date = 28 December 1922 (aged 70) |death_place = Wakefield, England |height = |weight = |position = Forwards |years1 = |clubs1 = Wakefield Trinity |years2 = |clubs2 = Yorkshire |repteam1 = England<ref name="Statistics at en.espn.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://en.espn.co.uk/england/rugby/player/508.html|title=Statistics at en.espn.co.uk|publisher=en.espn.co.uk|date=31 December 2017|accessdate=1 January 2018}}</ref> |repyears1 = 1884 |repcaps1 = 1 |reppoints1 = 0 }}
'''Barron Kilner''' (11 October 1852 – 28 December 1922) was an English rugby union footballer who played in the 1880s, and rugby union administrator of the 1890s. He played at representative level for England, and Yorkshire, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity (were a rugby union club at the time),<ref>Graham Williams, Peter Lush, David Farrar (November 2009). "The British Rugby League Records Book [Page-178]". London League Publications Ltd. {{ISBN|978-1-903659-49-6}}</ref> as a forward, e.g. front row, lock, or back row.<ref name="Statistics at en.espn.co.uk"/> Prior to 27 August 1895, Wakefield Trinity was a rugby union club. Barron Kilner was also Mayor of Wakefield in 1899.<ref name ="Mayors of Wakefield">{{cite web|url=https://www.wakefieldfhs.org.uk/Mayors.htm|title=Mayors of Wakefield|accessdate=18 May 2011}}</ref><ref>Tony Collins, "Rugby's Great Split: Class, Culture and the Origins of Rugby League football [Page-157]". Taylor & Francis 2006"</ref>
==Background== Barron Kilner was born in Thornhill Lees, West Riding of Yorkshire, and he died aged 70 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire.<ref name="Statistics at en.espn.co.uk"/>
==Playing career==
===International honours=== Barron Kilner won a cap for England while at Wakefield Trinity in the 1879–80 Home Nations rugby union match against Ireland.<ref name="Statistics at en.espn.co.uk"/>
===County honours=== Kilner represented Yorkshire while at Wakefield Trinity.
=="The Rugby Match"== Kilner can be seen in the crowd of William Barnes Wollen's painting "The Rugby Match", which features Yorkshire's 11–3 victory over Lancashire during the 1893/94 season and is now held at the Rugby Football Union headquarters at Twickenham Stadium. Alf Barraclough is shown being tackled, and passing the ball to Jack Toothill, with Tommy Dobson on the outside. Kilner is the first person in the crowd to the right of Dobson's head.<ref name="The Rugby Match">{{cite web|url=http://www.rugbyfootballhistory.com/images/the_rugby_game_sm.jpg|title=The Rugby Match|publisher=rugbyfootballhistory.com|date=31 December 2011|accessdate=1 January 2012}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.cliftonrfchistory.co.uk/internationals/england/budd/budd.htm Biography of Arthur Budd with an 1890–91 RFU Committee photograph including Barron Kilner] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927163454/http://www.cliftonrfchistory.co.uk/internationals/england/budd/budd.htm |date=27 September 2011 }}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kilner, Barron}} Category:1852 births Category:1922 deaths Category:England international rugby union players Category:English rugby union players Category:People from Thornhill, West Yorkshire Category:Sportspeople from Kirklees Category:Rugby union forwards Category:Rugby union officials Category:Rugby union players from Dewsbury Category:Wakefield Trinity players Category:Yorkshire County RFU players