St Lawrence Hugh Webb (7 March 1931 – 30 May 1978) was an English international rugby union player.
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||
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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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References edit
- ^ "Paris trip ended in disaster". St Albans & Harpenden Review. 5 December 2002.
- ^ a b c Robertson, Frank (31 May 1978). "Four feared dead in lunch-trip helicopter crash". The Daily Telegraph.
- ^ "Tycoon found". Daily Mirror. 20 June 1978.