Henry Vassall (22 October 1860 – 5 January 1926)[2] was an English rugby union player, writer, and master of Repton School, Derbyshire.

[citation needed] Henry Vassall was born at Bramley Grange in Barwick in Elmet, Yorkshire, the home of his maternal grandfather, on 22 October 1860.

[4] After taking Holy Orders, he served as curate of Church Fenton in Yorkshire from 1851 until 1853, and Rector of Hardington Mandeville from 1856 until his death in 1883.

Her father, William Dinsely Skelton, was a partner in the firm of Hives and Atkinson, flax spinners, of Bank Mills, Leeds.

[7] As an employer of nearly one thousand workers, he was one of four mill owners chosen in 1854 to meet Lord Palmerston to discuss factory safety.

[23] Wales were completely unprepared, and the team was constructed to appease regional sides, the result was an 8–0 defeat (82–0 by modern standards).

[21] His reign as the highest try scorer in a single international game was short lived, as during the same encounter George Burton surpassed him minutes later by scoring four.

[19] Henry retained an association with Hardington Mandeville throughout his life, owning a cottage in the village that he and his siblings used as a summer residence.