| 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.
Webb played over 300 games for Bedford and was capped by England four times as a prop in the 1959 Five Nations.
A wealthy businessman, Webb made considerable money selling his plant hire firm to Bovis Construction. 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.
See also
References
- "Paris trip ended in disaster". St Albans & Harpenden Review. 5 December 2002.
- ^ 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
- Larry Webb at ESPNscrum
- Larry Webb at England Rugby
- 1931 births
- 1978 deaths
- 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