Richard Thorpe

Richard Thorpe (born 1 November 1984) is a retired Premiership, Championship and International rugby union player, and the current Director of Rugby for Chinnor Rugby Club in Thame, Oxfordshire. Richard played as a flanker or No. 8 for London Irish, Leicester Tigers and London Welsh in Premiership Rugby, and represented Canada at the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England. Born in Beckenham, England, he qualified to play internationally for through his Canadian mother. He won 8 caps in 2014 and 2015 before retiring from professional rugby at the end of the 2016 season aged 31.