Jonty Parkin
British rugby league player
Died when: 77 years 156 days (929 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Jonathan "Jonty" Parkin (1894–1972) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s.One of the nine inaugural inductees of the Rugby Football League Hall of Fame, he toured Australia three times, twice as captain of Great Britain, earning 17 Test caps.
Parkin played at stand-off or scrum-half, i.e., number 6, or 7, and also captained England for whom he made 12 appearances, as well as 17 for Yorkshire.
Parkin gave the Wakefield Trinity club seventeen years' service, including victory in the 1924–25 Yorkshire Cup.
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