Larry Webb Explained

Larry Webb
Full Name:St Lawrence Hugh Webb
Birth Date:7 March 1931
Birth Place:Melbourne, Australia
Death Place:at sea
School:St George's School
Position:Prop
Repyears1:1959
Repcaps1:4
Reppoints1:0

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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  1. News: Paris trip ended in disaster . St Albans & Harpenden Review . 5 December 2002 . en.
  2. News: Robertson . Frank . Four feared dead in lunch-trip helicopter crash . . 31 May 1978.
  3. News: Tycoon found . . 20 June 1978.