Jules Malfroy
| Full name | Jules Omer John Malfroy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 4 December 1901 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Hokitika, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 3 August 1973 (aged 71) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Bridge House Great Shelford Cambridge England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Waitaki Boys' High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University |
Canterbury College Victoria University College Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
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| Spouse | Charlotte Georgiana Rose Mary (née Somerset) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Deborah Mary Somerset Malfroy (1934) Jules Michel Charles Somerset Malfroy (1939) Louise Georgiana Somerset Malfroy (1942) |
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| Position(s) | Scrum-half | ||
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| 1926 | Cambridge University RUFC | () | |
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1927 |
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Jules Omer John Malfroy (4 December 1901 – 3 August 1973) was a prominent New Zealand lawyer, legal advisor to the British government during the Second World War, and an early twentieth century rugby union international. He is known as one of the "lost lions" due to his participation on the 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina, which, although retrospectively recognised as a Lions tour, did not confer test status on any of the four encounters with the Argentina national rugby union team.
Jules Malfroy was born in 1901, the eldest son of Camille M. Malfroy, of the State Forest Department, Wellington. The Malfroy family in New Zealand was descended from Jean Baptiste Malfroy originally from Macornay, Lons-le-Saunier, Jura, France, a miller, and his wife, Josephine Pricarde. Jean Baptiste along with two of his sons, Jean Michel Camille Malfroy, usually known as Camille, and Jules Cézar Malfroy, (the eldest of the three brothers), joined the rush to the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s and arrived in New Zealand in the early 1860s.
Jules Malfroy was born at Hokitika, where he received his primary education. He spent one year at the local Boys' High School before moving to the Waitaki Boys' High School. At Waitaki he became a prefect and matriculated in 1919. He then entered a legal office in Christchurch in 1920 and studied law at Canterbury College. In 1922 he want to Wellington where he continued his studies at Victoria University College and secured his LL.B. degree whilst earning his living in legal offices. He then went on to study for honours in law and LL.M., whilst practising as both a barrister and solicitor in the employ of the legal firm of Bell, Gully, Mackenzie, and O'Leary. Malfroy, was nominated in 1924 as the Wellington candidate for 1924 for the Rhodes Scholarship. He was then awarded the Jacob Joseph Scholarship for law research in 1924 and again was nominated for the Rhodes scholarship in 1925. However, from Victoria University College he gained a law travelling scholarship that took him to Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
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