{{Short description|England international rugby union player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Use Indian English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Deneys Swayne | image = | caption = | full_name = Deneys Harald Swayne | birth_date = {{birth date|1909|11|23|df=y}} | birth_place = Roorkee, British India | death_date = {{death date and age|1990|09|09|1909|11|23|df=y}} | death_place = Mendip, Somerset, England | height = | weight = | occupation = Doctor | school = Bromsgrove School | university = Worcester College, Oxford | relatives = | position = Wing-forward | repyears1 = 1931 | repteam1 = {{nrut|England}} | repcaps1 = 1 | reppoints1 = 0 }} '''Deneys Harald Swayne''' (23 November 1909 – 9 September 1990) was an English international rugby union player.
The son of a lieutenant colonel, Swayne was born in Roorkee, British India, and attended Bromsgrove School in Worcestershire, before further studies at Worcester College, Oxford, and St George's Hospital.<ref name="BMJ">{{cite journal |title=3 November 1990 |journal=British Medical Journal |volume=301 |page=1044 |url=https://www.bmj.com/content/301/6759/1044}}</ref>
Swayne was a varsity player at Oxford and gained one England cap, as a wing-forward in a 1931 Five Nations match against Wales at Twickenham, which ended in a 11–11 draw.<ref>{{cite news |title=Thrilling Finish to Exiting Game |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000511/19310119/034/0006 |work=Exeter and Plymouth Gazette |date=19 January 1931}}</ref>
In World War II, Swayne served as a captain with the Royal Army Medical Corps and was wounded in Normandy.<ref name="BMJ"/>
Swayne was a general practitioner in Stevenage for 35 years, before retiring to Ditcheat, Somerset.<ref>{{cite news |title=Well-known Ditcheat doctor dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/936021363 |work=Shepton Mallet Journal |date=20 September 1990}}</ref>
==See also== *List of England national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|3841}}
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