{{Short description|English rugby union player}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Charles Faithfull | image = | caption = | full_name = Charles Kirke Tindall Faithfull | birth_date = {{birth date|1903|01|06|df=y}} | birth_place = Surrey, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1979|08|08|1903|01|06|df=y}} | death_place = | height = | weight = | occupation = | school = Wellington College | university = | relatives = | position = Prop | repyears1 = 1924–26 | repteam1 = {{nrut|England}} | repcaps1 = 3 | reppoints1 = 0 }} '''Charles Kirke Tindall Faithfull''' (6 January 1903 – 8 August 1979) was an English international rugby union player.
Faithfull was the son of an Indian Army lieutenant colonel and attended Wellington College.<ref name="Surrey">{{cite news |title=Marriage of Lieut. C. K. T. Faithfull |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000727/19310808/239/0009 |work=Surrey Advertiser |date=8 August 1931}}</ref>
A front row forward, Faithfull was known to his teammates as "Chubby", while opponents were said to refer to him as "The Mad Bull".<ref>{{cite news |title=Daffodil, Don Deal and the Irish Thrush |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/259572675 |work=The Guardian |date=28 October 1978}}</ref> He played for the Army, Combined Services, Harlequins, Halifax and Yorkshire. His career included three England caps, across the 1924 and 1926 Five Nations Championships.<ref>{{cite news |title=International Forward for Halifax R.U. |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003295/19260330/102/0006 |work=Halifax Evening Courier |date=30 March 1926}}</ref>
Faithfull was commissioned in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment. Later rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, commanding the 2nd Battalion of the regiment in WW2.[https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1931-08-08/1931-08-14?basicsearch=surrey%20advertiser&somesearch=surrey%20advertiser&retrievecountrycounts=false]
==See also== *List of England national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|3082}}
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