Jonty Parkin

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Jonty Parkin (born in Sharlston, West Yorkshire) was an English rugby league footballer. He joined Wakefield Trinity as an 18-year-old in 1913 and gave 17 years' service, playing 349 times and earning 17 Great Britain Test caps, 12 England appearances and 17 for Yorkshire. He played at scrum-half and also captained England. In 1988 he was one of the first group of inductees into the British Rugby League Hall of Fame.

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• Jonty Parkin at rugbyleaguehistory.co.uk

v • d • e British Rugby League Hall of Fame Inductees 1988 Billy Batten • Brian Bevan • Billy Boston • Alex Murphy • Jonty Parkin • Gus Risman • Albert Rosenfeld • Jim Sullivan • Harold Wagstaff 1989 Neil Fox 2000 Vince Karalius • Roger Millward • Tom Van Vollenhoven 2005 Eric Ashton • Douglas Clark • Ellery Hanley • Martin Hodgson