Larry Webb
Rugby player
Full name | St Lawrence Hugh Webb | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1931-03-07)7 March 1931 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 30 May 1978(1978-05-30) (aged 47) | ||||||||||||||||
Place of death | at sea | ||||||||||||||||
School | St George's School | ||||||||||||||||
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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]
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External links
- Larry Webb at ESPNscrum
- Larry Webb at England Rugby