Neil Purvis

Neil Purvis

Full name	Neil Alexander Purvis
Date of birth	(1953-01-31)31 January 1953
Place of birth	Cromwell, New Zealand
Date of death	26 October 2008(2008-10-26) (aged 55)
Place of death	Tarras, New Zealand
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	83 kg (183 lb)
School	John McGlashan College
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Wing, second five-eighth
New Zealand No.	746
Provincial/State sides
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1971–72 1973–81	Wairarapa Bush Otago	24 56
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1976	New Zealand	1	(0)

Neil Alexander Purvis (31 January 1953 – 26 October 2008) was a New Zealand rugby union player. A second five-eighth and wing, Purvis represented Wairarapa Bush and Otago at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, in 1976. He played 12 matches for the All Blacks including one international.^[1]

Purvis was also a noted breeder and owner of thoroughbred racehorses, his horse Cluden Creek winning the 2004 Wellington Cup. He farmed Cluden Station in near Tarras in Central Otago, and died there in 2008 while attempting to rescue cattle from a bog.^[2]

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