Full name | Thomas Peter Wright | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 28 February 1931 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Roxby, Lincolnshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 22 April 2002 | (aged 71)||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Devizes, Wiltshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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]