Peter Wright | |
Full Name: | Thomas Peter Wright |
Birth Date: | 28 February 1931 |
Birth Place: | Roxby, Lincolnshire, England |
Death Place: | Devizes, Wiltshire, England |
Position: | Prop |
Repyears1: | 1960–62 |
Repcaps1: | 13 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Repyears2: | 1962 |
Thomas Peter Wright (28 February 1931 - 22 April 2002) was an English rugby union international.[1]
Born in Roxby, Lincolnshire, Wright was educated at The Judd School and played his early rugby for Tonbridge.[2]
Wright, a prop, joined Blackheath in 1954 and went on to captain the club in the early 1960s.[3] He was capped 13 times by England from 1960 to 1962 and toured South Africa with the 1962 British Lions.[4]
A brewery worker by profession, Wright died of a heart attack in 2002 at the age of 71.[5]