Full name | St Lawrence Hugh Webb | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 7 March 1931 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 30 May 1978 | (aged 47)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | at sea | ||||||||||||||||
School | St George's School | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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St Lawrence Hugh Webb (7 March 1931 – 30 May 1978) was an English international rugby union player.
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Webb was the son of a property developer who owned the Chequers Cinema in St Albans, Hertfordshire, and grew up in the village of Redbourn. He attended St George's School in Harpenden. [1]
Webb played over 300 games for Bedford and was capped by England four times as a prop in the 1959 Five Nations. [2]
A wealthy businessman, Webb made considerable money selling his plant hire firm to Bovis Construction. [2] He died in 1978, piloting a Bell 206 helicopter that crashed at sea on the way back from Le Touquet, at the age of 47. [2] [3]
Full name | St Lawrence Hugh Webb | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 7 March 1931 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 30 May 1978 | (aged 47)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | at sea | ||||||||||||||||
School | St George's School | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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St Lawrence Hugh Webb (7 March 1931 – 30 May 1978) was an English international rugby union player.
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Webb was the son of a property developer who owned the Chequers Cinema in St Albans, Hertfordshire, and grew up in the village of Redbourn. He attended St George's School in Harpenden. [1]
Webb played over 300 games for Bedford and was capped by England four times as a prop in the 1959 Five Nations. [2]
A wealthy businessman, Webb made considerable money selling his plant hire firm to Bovis Construction. [2] He died in 1978, piloting a Bell 206 helicopter that crashed at sea on the way back from Le Touquet, at the age of 47. [2] [3]