{{Short description|England international rugby union player}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Barry Nelmes | image = | caption = | full_name = Barry George Nelmes | birth_date = {{birth date|1948|04|17|df=y}} | birth_place = Bristol, England | death_date = {{death date and age|2006|12|01|1948|04|17|df=y}} | death_place = Cardiff, Wales | height = 6 ft 2 in | weight = | occupation = | school = | university = | relatives = | position = Prop | repyears1 = 1975–78 | repteam1 = {{nrut|England}} | repcaps1 = 6 | reppoints1 = 4 }} '''Barry George Nelmes''' (17 April 1948 – 1 December 2006) was an English rugby union international.
== Biography == Born in Bristol, Nelmes attended Portway Secondary School and was playing first-class rugby for Bristol by age 16. He moved to Cardiff RFC in 1973–74 and two years later was called up by England for a tour of Australia, where he earned two caps as a prop. In 1978, he played in three Five Nations matches and one more Test later that year against the All Blacks at Twickenham. He became Cardiff captain in 1978–79 and went on to play 166 games for the club.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Howell |first1=Andy |title=Nelmes was a 'great servant' to the game |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/nelmes-great-servant-game-2287901 |work=Wales Online |date=5 December 2006 |language=en}}</ref>
Nelmes continued to live in Cardiff after his rugby career ended. In 1993, he was sentenced to 15-month imprisonment for theft, having been found guilty of stealing £12,000 from a local social club of which he was a steward and doctoring the books to try and hide the crime.<ref>{{cite news |title=Former rugby star jailed for theft |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/913649747 |work=Evening Post |date=30 June 1993}}</ref> He died in Cardiff in 2006 at the age of 58.<ref>{{cite news |title=Blues legend Nelmes dies, aged 58 |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/blues-legend-nelmes-dies-aged-2287640 |work=Wales Online |date=3 December 2006 |language=en}}</ref>
==See also== *List of England national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|8392}}
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