{{Short description|Rugby union player from Northern Ireland}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Harry Rea | image = | caption = | full_name = Harold Halliday Rea | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|03|18|df=y}} | birth_place = Belfast, Northern Ireland | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | occupation = Professor of medicine | school = Belfast Royal Academy | university = University of Edinburgh | relatives = | position = Centre | repyears1 = 1967–69 | repteam1 = {{nrut|Ireland}} | repcaps1 = 2 | reppoints1 = 0 }} '''Harold Halliday Rea''' (born 18 March 1946) is an academic and former Ireland international rugby union player.<ref>{{cite news |title=Unlucky Harry Rea Is Omitted |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005119/19700504/198/0010 |work=Belfast News-Letter |date=4 May 1970}}</ref>
==Early life== Born in Belfast, Rea was educated at Belfast Royal Academy, where he followed his brothers John and Richard in captaining the first XV.<ref>{{cite news |title=B.R.A's Rea of hope for Schools' Cup |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005119/19640317/131/0006 |work=Belfast News-Letter |date=17 March 1964}}</ref> He led the school to the 1964 Ulster Schools' Cup title (shared with Campbell College).<ref>{{cite news |title=Ireland: Rugby: Schools' Cup final facts ... |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/ireland-rugby-schools-cup-final-facts/28322766.html |work=Belfast Telegraph |date=31 March 2001}}</ref>
==Rugby career== Rea played his senior rugby with Edinburgh University, North of Ireland, London Irish and Ulster, while winning two Ireland caps as a centre. He made his debut in Ireland's 1967 win over the touring Wallabies and played a 1969 Five Nations match against France, both at Lansdowne Road.<ref name="AucklandBound">{{cite news |title=Harry Rea Auckland bound |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002318/19740815/566/0024 |work=Belfast Telegraph |date=15 August 1974}}</ref>
==Medicine== Rea moved to New Zealand in 1974 to take over an Auckland medical practice.<ref name="AucklandBound" /> He became a professor of medicine.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fuatai |first1=Teuila |title=Getting back to grassroots healthcare in South Auckland |url=https://newsroom.co.nz/2017/06/08/the-miracles-of-modern-medicine-and-its-pitfalls/ |work=Newsroom |date=8 June 2017}}</ref>
==See also== *List of Ireland national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|7173}}
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