Robert Oliphant (rugby union)
Robert Oliphant (1 December 1864 – 18 January 1956) was a New Zealand rugby union player.A wing-forward, Oliphant represented Manawatu, Wellington, Auckland and Hawke's Bay at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, in 1893 and 1896.[4] In 1897, Oliphant was awarded the silver medal of the Royal Humane Society of Australasia for saving a girl, Margaret Purnell, from drowning in Auckland Harbour on 29 May 1896.[5] Following the death of Sir Henry Braddon in 1955, Oliphant held the distinction of being the oldest living All Black.This biographical article relating to New Zealand rugby union, about a person born in the 1860s, is a stub.