{{Short description|England international rugby union player}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Laurie Rimmer | image = | caption = | full_name = Laurance Ivor Rimmer | birth_date = {{birth date|1935|05|31|df=y}} | birth_place = Liverpool, Lancashire, England | death_date = {{death date and age|2012|05|31|1935|05|31|df=y}} | death_place = Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England | height = | weight = | occupation = | school = | university = | relatives = | position = Flanker | repyears1 = 1961 | repteam1 = {{nrut|England}} | repcaps1 = 5 | reppoints1 = 0 }} '''Laurance Ivor Rimmer''' (31 May 1935 - 31 May 2012) was an English rugby union international.<ref>{{cite news |title=Pen Pictures Of The Two County Teams |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/895002658 |work=Western Morning News |date=11 March 1961}}</ref>
Rimmer, born in Liverpool, boarded at Birkenhead School and read geography at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.<ref name="Shenton">{{cite news |last1=Shenton |first1=Kenneth |title=Laurie Rimmer: Headmaster and rugby international |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/laurie-rimmer-headmaster-and-rugby-international-7936304.html |work=The Independent |date=11 July 2012 |language=en}}</ref>
An Oxford University blue, Rimmer was called up by England while playing for Bath in 1961, debuting as a flanker against the touring Springboks at Twickenham. He played all four Tests of the 1961 Five Nations Championship.<ref name="Shenton"/>
Rimmer served as headmaster of Framlingham College from 1971 to 1989.<ref>{{cite news |title=Framlingham: Tributes to former college headmaster Laurie Rimmer who has died aged 77 |url=https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21759880.framlingham-tributes-former-college-headmaster-laurie-rimmer-died-aged-77/ |work=East Anglian Daily Times |date=7 June 2012 |language=en}}</ref>
==See also== *List of England national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|6565}}
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