Dylan Hartley was born on 24 March 1986 and is a New Zealand-born English former rugby union player who played as hooker for Northampton Saints and has been named as Director of Rugby for the Dubai Sharks R F C in the United Arab Emirates.
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Dylan Hartley was the captain of England from January 2016 until the end of his international career in 2018.
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Dylan Hartley is England's most capped hooker of all time, earning his first cap in 2008.
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Dylan Hartley was born one of three boys in Rotorua, a largely rural area in northern New Zealand.
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Dylan Hartley attended Rotorua Boys' High School where he began playing rugby as a loose head prop and graduated in 2002 with teammates, Liam Messam and Kelly Haimona.
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Dylan Hartley met with Jon Pass whose father was a rugby coach for a local club and Beacon Academy.
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Dylan Hartley was just 15 at the time and missed completing his final year of school at Rotorua High.
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Dylan Hartley joined the Senior Academy of Northampton Saints in the summer of 2005.
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On 22 July 2009, Dylan Hartley was made Northampton Saints captain, replacing Bruce Reihana.
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Dylan Hartley captained the losing Northampton sides in the 2011 Heineken Cup Final and the 2013 English Premiership Final.
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On 17 December 2014 Northampton announced that Dylan Hartley had extended his contract for a further three years, despite a more lucrative offer from French side Montpellier, with Dylan Hartley citing his desire to remain eligible for England selection as a deciding factor.
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On 7 November 2019, Dylan Hartley announced his retirement from rugby due to a knee injury that had kept him side-lined for all of 2019.
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Dylan Hartley represented England at the 2005 Under 21 Rugby World Championship.
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Dylan Hartley made his first start for England against Argentina at Old Trafford in June 2009.
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Dylan Hartley was named as the new England captain under Eddie Jones for the 2016 Six Nations Championship, replacing Chris Robshaw.
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Dylan Hartley then captained the team who achieved England's first ever away series win against Australia in June 2016, and during the series became England's most capped hooker of all time.
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Dylan Hartley had a large number of disciplinary problems in matches amounting to a total of 60 banned weeks in his career.
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In December 2014, Dylan Hartley was banned for three weeks for an elbowing offence in the match against Leicester Tigers.
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Dylan Hartley's elbow made contact with the nose of winger Matt Smith.
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In May 2015, Dylan Hartley was found guilty of making contact with the head of opposite number Jamie George in the semi-final English premiership loss to Saracens at Franklin's Gardens.
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Dylan Hartley was found guilty by the citing commissioner and banned for four weeks, putting his England Rugby World Cup 2015 selection in jeopardy, as he would be unavailable for the first week of the tournament.
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In December 2016, Dylan Hartley was banned for 6 weeks having caught Leinster Rugby player Sean O'Brien with a swinging arm to the back of the head in a European Champions Cup game.
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