{{Short description|England international rugby union player}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Ronald Hillard | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG|size=100%}} | image = | caption = | full_name = Ronald Johnstone Hillard | birth_date = {{birth date|1903|05|06|df=y}} | birth_place = Durham, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1971|03|23|1903|05|06|df=y}} | death_place = Weymouth, England | height = | weight = | occupation = Civil servant | school = St Paul's School, London | university = Christ Church, Oxford | relatives = | position = Front row | repyears1 = 1925 | repteam1 = {{nrut|England}} | repcaps1 = 1 | reppoints1 = 0 }} '''Ronald Johnstone Hillard''' (6 May 1903 – 23 March 1971) was an English international rugby union player.
Born in Durham, Hillard was educated at Colet Court Preparatory School, followed by St Paul's School, London, where his father was the high master (headmaster). He captained both the cricket and rugby teams of St Paul's School. Receiving a classics scholarship, Hillard attended Christ Church, Oxford, and was an Oxford rugby blue his second season.<ref>{{cite news |title=A Well-earned Cap |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005049/19250103/213/0010 |work=London Daily Chronicle |date=3 January 1925}}</ref>
Hillard first trialled for England in 1923 and gained his solitary cap as a front row forward against the touring "Invincible" 1924–25 All Blacks at Twickenham, a match they lost 11–17.<ref>{{cite news |title=All Black's Victory |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000437/19250109/033/0002 |work=West London Observer |date=9 January 1925}}</ref>
A civil servant, Hillard was lost to English rugby in 1925 when he moved to Sudan.<ref>{{cite news |title=Off to the Sudan |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000986/19251116/093/0010 |work=Athletic News |date=16 November 1925}}</ref> He became General Manager of Sudan Railways and in the 1950 Birthday Honours was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Chancery of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George |journal=London Gazette |page=2779}}</ref>
==See also== *List of England national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|3200}}
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