Rugby player
| Birth name | Peter Denny Strang | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1889-04-26)26 April 1889 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Merchant Taylors School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Peter Denny Strang (born 26 April 1889; date of death unknown) was a British sportsman who played rugby union at an international level, touring Argentina with the 1910 Combined British rugby union side, an early incarnation of the British and Irish Lions.
Early life
Peter Denny Strang was born on 26 April 1889, in London, the son of William, an artist and Agnes. He attended Merchant Taylors School where he featured in the School first fifteen rugby squad in 1904-05. He left school in 1905 and for some time studied at Aspatria Agricultural College in Cumberland.
Rugby union
Strang played his rugby for his school's old boys club, Old Merchant Taylors. Although he was never selected to play rugby for England, he was selected to tour with the Combined British on the 1910 tour to Argentina where he played in what Argentina count as their first test match.
Later life
After Aspatria College, he joined a firm of shipping agents, and was employed in Le Havre, France.
During World War I he voluntarily enlisted on 31 August 1914 with the London Scottish infantry regiment of the British Army as Private No.2522, going on to serve on the Western Front with its 1st Battalion in 1915 as a corporal. He subsequently received a commission as a subaltern with the Army Pay Corps. He resided in the 1920s at No.7 Hamilton Terrace, London NW8.
References
- ^ Merchant Taylors' School register, 1851-1920, p334, (Merchant Taylors' School (London, England)), E. P. Hart - 1923
- Great Britain XV tour - Flores, 12 June 1910
- History of the 1910 Combined British Tour to Argentina at nicheto.rugbytime.com Archived 14 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- World War I Medal index card of Peter Strang, National Archive, Surrey, England. W0 372/19/83801. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D5421395