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    • Web Ellis Cup Tours
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      • Olney under 13's
    • Bletchley RUFC >
      • Presidents, chairmen & captains
    • Milton Keynes RUFC >
      • MKRUFC Collection
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  • Memories
    • More Memories... >
      • Duncan MacFarlane
      • Ed Slater
      • Iain Talbot
      • James Coffill
      • John Silk
      • Kevin O'Brien
      • Mobasher 'Bash' Mahmood
      • Sharon Johnson
      • Sinclair Holm
      • Steve Browne
    • Peter Lousada
    • Edgar Mobbs
    • Dix Family
    • Norman Walker
    • Weston Family
    • Ray Longland
    • Jeff Butterfield
    • Marlon Jeavons
    • Arthur Bull
    • Major B I Swannell
    • Keith McLean
    • David Eales
    • Brenda Price
    • Bev Humphries
    • Aaron Crosbie
    • Dr Parkins
  • Honours
    • Lewis Shield
    • Muddiman Cup
    • North Bucks Shield
  • Ladies Rugby
    • History of Ladies Rugby
    • MK Citizen Newspaper - 2015
    • Bletchley Ladies at Twickenham
    • Verity Robinson
  • Schools
    • St Pauls U-15
    • Shenley Brook End
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    • Exhibition Images
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    • Youth Rugby
    • Edgar Mobbs collection
  • Exhibition
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Jeff Butterfield

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​Jeffrey Butterfield was born on 9th August 1929 in Heckmondwike, Yorkshire and died on 30th April 2004 at Wicken, Northamptonshire. He was an England, British and Irish Lions, Yorkshire, Cleckheaton RUFC, Northampton and Barbarians Rugby player and President of Milton Keynes Rugby Club from 1972 until his death.
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Butterfield began his senior rugby career with Northampton Saints and played for them 227 times. In addition to his duties at Northampton he also played 54 times for Yorkshire and captained them in two County Championship finals, in 1953 and 1957.
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He is considered to have been one of the most gifted centres to have played Rugby for England and was capped 28 times. He was first capped by England in 1953 and played for England for six years, including 28 successive matches – in his final season he was captain. Butterfield became England's most capped back, and on his watch, England won the Five Nations' Championship four times, the Triple Crown twice and a Grand Slam.