Edward Brian Pope

Edward Brian Pope

Edward Brian Pope was born in Barnet on 29 June 1911 and educated at Uppingham School and Cambridge University where he won his Blue in 1932. A member of the Blackheath club, he gained three caps at scrum-half for England in 1931. He was an underwriting company director and served in the RAF in World War Two.In the summer of 2011 Brian Pope celebrated his one-hundredth birthday and was also England's oldest living international.