{{Short description|British Lions & England international rugby union player}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Robin Prescott | image = | caption = | full_name = Robert Edward Prescott | birth_date = {{birth date|1913|04|05|df=y}} | birth_place = Paddington, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1975|05|18|1913|04|05|df=y}} | death_place = Dartmouth, England | height = | weight = | occupation = Solicitor | school = | university = University of Oxford | relatives = Curly Hammond (uncle) | position = Prop | repyears1 = 1936 | repteam1 = {{nrut|British Lions}} | repcaps1 = | reppoints1 = | repyears2 = 1937–39 | repteam2 = {{nrut|England}} | repcaps2 = 6 | reppoints2 = 3 }} '''Robert Edward Prescott''' (5 April 1913 – 18 May 1975) was an English international rugby union player.
Prescott was born in Paddington, London in 1913. His father Ernest was a solicitor who had a period as president of the Rugby Football Union during the 1920s and his mother was the sister of ex-England forward Curly Hammond.<ref>{{cite news |title=Death of Mr. Ernest Prescott |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/809120366 |work=The Surrey Advertiser, County Times |date=4 February 1933}}</ref>
An Oxford blue, Prescott was a wing-forward in the 1932 Varsity Match, then developed into a prop during his time with Harlquins, as the club had a surplus of wing-forwards. He also competed for Marlborough, which he captained. In 1936, Prescott toured Argentina with the British Lions. He featured as a prop for England from 1937 to 1939, earning six caps.<ref name="Cherry">{{cite news |last1=Cherry |first1=Rupert |title=R. E. Prescott - Great Man Of Rugby |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/750578413 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=22 May 1975}}</ref>
Prescott, a Dartmouth solicitor, also followed his father into rugby administration. He served as an England selector for 10 years and in 1962 succeeded Doug Prentice as Rugby Football Union secretary.<ref>{{cite news |title=Robin Prescott New Secretary of R.U. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/787172958 |work=Coventry Evening Telegraph |date=8 October 1962}}</ref>
==See also== *List of England national rugby union players *List of British & Irish Lions players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|4402}}
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