{{Short description|Wales international rugby union player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Trevor Brewer | image = | caption = | birth_name = Trevor James Brewer | birth_date = {{birth date|1930|8|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Newport, Wales | death_date = {{death date and age|2018|7|15|1930|8|16|df=y}} | death_place = Reading, England | height = | weight = | position = Wing | amatyears1 = | amatteam1 = Oxford University RFC | amatteam2 = Newport RFC | amatteam3 = London Welsh RFC | amatteam4 = Gloucester RFC | amatteam5 = The Army | amatteam6 = Combined Services | amatteam7 = Hampshire | ru_amclubcaps = | ru_amclubpoints = | ru_amupdate = | repteam1 = Wales | repyears1 = 1950–1955 | repcaps1 = 3 | reppoints1 = 6 | ru_ntupdate = | coachteams1 = | coachyears1 = | ru_coachupdate = | school = Newport High School | university = Jesus College, Oxford }} '''Trevor James Brewer''' (16 August 1930 – 15 July 2018)<ref>[http://www.espnscrum.com/wales/rugby/player/5294.html Trevor Brewer player profile] ESPN Scrum.com</ref> was a Welsh rugby union international player. He played for the Wales national rugby union team on three occasions, once in 1950 and twice in 1955.
==Life and rugby career== Brewer, who was born in Newport, Wales and was educated at Newport High School, representing the school rugby team. He then represented his country at schoolboy level playing for the Welsh Secondary Schools team. He matriculated to Jesus College, Oxford where he studied chemistry.<ref name=Jesus/><ref name=WRU/> He was called into the Wales national rugby union team for the match against England in January 1950 whilst still a student at Oxford, and before he had won his "Blue" (as he had missed the Varsity Match that year through injury).<ref name=Jesus>{{cite journal|journal=The Jesus College Record|year=2008|pages=33–34|title=Rugby Memories|last=Roderick|first=Kenneth}}</ref> He played on the wing. Brewer did not play for Wales again until the 1954/1955 season, when he played in the matches against England and Scotland national rugby union team, scoring two tries against Scotland.<ref name=WRU>{{cite web|url=http://www.wru.co.uk/12750_14256.php?player=31653&includeref=dynamic|title=Searchable Player Archive: Trevor Brewer|work=Welsh Rugby Union|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814112201/http://www.wru.co.uk/14256.php?player=31653&includeref=dynamic|archivedate=14 August 2011}}</ref> He also played rugby for the Army, Newport RFC, London Welsh RFC (captaining the side) and the Welsh Academicals.<ref>{{cite web|title=Welsh Academicals History: An Invitation From The Accies |url=http://www.welshacademicalsrugby.net/AnInvitationFromTheAccies.html|publisher=Welsh Academicals Rugby|year=2008|last=Brewer|first=Trevor|access-date=3 March 2009}}</ref>
He later worked for ICI and lived in Northern Ireland.<ref name=Times/> He was the father of Nicola Brewer, former British High Commissioner to South Africa and former chief executive of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights.<ref name=Times>{{cite web|title=We need a Dad's revolution|url=http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article1654451.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615185222/http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article1654451.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 June 2011|date=15 April 2007|work=The Sunday Times|last=Fernand |first=Deidre|access-date=3 March 2009}}</ref>
He died on 15 July 2018 at the age of 87.<ref>[http://www.bmdsonline.co.uk/western-mail/obituary/trevor-james-brewer/53914817 Trevor James Brewer Obituary]</ref>
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