Larry Webb
| Full name | St Lawrence Hugh Webb | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 7 March 1931 Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 30 May 1978 (aged 47) 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]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Paris trip ended in disaster". St Albans & Harpenden Review. 5 December 2002.
- 1 2 3 Robertson, Frank (31 May 1978). "Four feared dead in lunch-trip helicopter crash". The Daily Telegraph.
- ↑ "Tycoon found". Daily Mirror. 20 June 1978.
External links
[edit]- Larry Webb at ESPNscrum (archived)
- Larry Webb at England Rugby
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- 1931 births
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- English rugby union players
- England international rugby union players
- Rugby union players from Hertfordshire
- Rugby union props
- People educated at St George's School, Harpenden
- Bedford Blues players
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in international waters
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Europe
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1978
- 20th-century English sportsmen
- Victims of helicopter accidents or incidents