Bill Morris (rugby Union Player Born 1941)
William John Morris (born 16 June 1941) was an Australian born, Wales, Welsh international rugby union lock who played club rugby for Wrexham RFC, Wrexham and Newport RFC, Newport and international rugby for Wales national rugby union team, Wales. Morris also played for the Barbarian F.C., Barbarians and toured with them to South Africa in 1969, during the apartheid era. He is the third of four players known as Bill Morris to represent Wales at rugby union. Personal history Morris was born in Australia in 1941, the son of a Welsh man who had joined the Colonial Service and while in Australia had joined the Australian Air Force on the outbreak of the Second World War. His mother was a Russian from Vladivostok, who his father had met in China. His family returned to Britain settling in Wrexham, north Wales where Morris attended Grove Park School.Jenkins (1991), p.116 On leaving education he gained employment as a solicitor. Rugby career Morris played rugby as a youth for his sch ...
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Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal ...
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