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Larry Webb

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Larry Webb
Full nameSt Lawrence Hugh Webb
Date of birth(1931-03-07)7 March 1931
Place of birthMelbourne, Australia
Date of death30 May 1978(1978-05-30) (aged 47)
Place of deathat sea
SchoolSt George's School
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1959 England 4 (0)

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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References

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  1. ^ "Paris trip ended in disaster". St Albans & Harpenden Review. 5 December 2002.
  2. ^ a b c Robertson, Frank (31 May 1978). "Four feared dead in lunch-trip helicopter crash". The Daily Telegraph.
  3. ^ "Tycoon found". Daily Mirror. 20 June 1978.
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