Peter Wright (rugby union, born 1931)
England international rugby union player
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Thomas Peter Wright (28 February 1931 – 22 April 2002) was an English rugby union international.[1]
Full nameThomas Peter Wright
Born28 February 1931
Roxby, Lincolnshire, England
Died22 April 2002 (aged 71)
Devizes, Wiltshire, England
Position
Prop
| Full name | Thomas Peter Wright | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 28 February 1931 Roxby, Lincolnshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 22 April 2002 (aged 71) Devizes, Wiltshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
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]