John Williams | |
Full Name: | John Michael Williams |
Birth Date: | 24 August 1927 |
Birth Place: | Penzance, Cornwall, England |
Death Place: | Budock, Cornwall, England |
School: | Rugby School |
University: | University of Cambridge |
Position: | Centre |
Repyears1: | 1951 |
Repcaps1: | 2 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
John Michael Williams (24 August 1927 – 6 September 2000) was an English international rugby union player.
Williams was born and raised in Penzance, Cornwall. He attended Rugby School.[1]
A hard-running centre, Williams gained a Cambridge blue in 1949 and was club captain of the Cornish Pirates. He was capped twice for England in the 1951 Five Nations, against Ireland at Lansdowne Road and Scotland at Twickenham.[2]
Williams was a solicitor turned industrialist and spent his later years living in Budock. He held the position of High Sheriff of Cornwall for 1990 and also served a period as President of Cornwall RFU.[3]