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1930 British Lions Tour To New Zealand And Australia
The 1930 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia was the twelfth tour by a British and Irish Lions, British Isles team and the fifth to New Zealand and Australia. This tour is recognised as the first to represent a bona fide British teamGodwin (1981), pg 231. and the first to be widely dubbed the 'Lions', after the nickname was used by journalists during the 1924 British Lions tour to South Africa, 1924 tour of South Africa.Griffiths (1987), pg 9:7. Led by England's Doug Prentice and managed by James Baxter (sportsman), James Baxter the tour took in 28 matches, seven in Australia and 21 in New Zealand. Of the 28 games, 24 were against club or invitational teams, four were test matches against New Zealand national rugby union team, New Zealand and one was a test match against Australia national rugby union team, Australia. The test match results saw the Lions lose to Australia, and win only one of the four New Zealand tests. As with earlier trips, the selectors had a di ...
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James Baxter (sportsman)
James Baxter (8 June 1870 – 5 July 1940) was an English rugby union player and manager. Baxter was also a crew member of the British boat ''Mouchette'', which won a silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics for sailing (sport), sailing in the 12-metre class. In 1927, he was president of the Rugby Football Union. He managed the British and Irish Lions tour to Argentina in 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina, 1927 and the 1930 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia, 1930 tour to New Zealand and Australia. References External links

* * 1870 births 1940 deaths English rugby union players English male sailors (sport) British male sailors (sport) Sailors at the 1908 Summer Olympics – 12 Metre Olympic sailors for Great Britain Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain England international rugby union players Olympic medalists in sailing Birkenhead Park FC players Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics Rugby union players from Birkenhead Rugby union forw ...
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Cambridge University R
Cambridge ( ) is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is the county town of Cambridgeshire and is located on the River Cam, north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of the City of Cambridge was 145,700; the population of the wider built-up area (which extends outside the city council area) was 181,137. (2021 census) There is archaeological evidence of settlement in the area as early as the Bronze Age, and Cambridge became an important trading centre during the Roman and Viking eras. The first town charters were granted in the 12th century, although modern city status was not officially conferred until 1951. The city is well known as the home of the University of Cambridge, which was founded in 1209 and consistently ranks among the best universities in the world. The buildings of the university include King's College Chapel, Cavendish Laboratory, and the Cambridge University Library, one of the largest ...
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Wanderers F
Wanderer, Wanderers, or The Wanderer may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film, television, and theater * The Wanderer (1913 film), ''The Wanderer'' (1913 film), a silent film * The Wanderer (1925 film), ''The Wanderer'' (1925 film), a silent film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Greta Nissen and Wallace Beery * The Wanderers (1956 film), ''The Wanderers'' (1956 film), an Italian drama film directed by Hugo Fregonese and starring Peter Ustinov * The Wanderer (1967 film), ''The Wanderer'' (1967 film), a French film directed by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco * The Wanderers (1973 film), ''The Wanderers'' (1973 film), a Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa * The Wanderers (1979 film), ''The Wanderers'' (1979 film), an American film directed by Philip Kaufman * , Israeli film * Wanderers (2014 film), ''Wanderers'' (2014 film), a Swedish science fiction short * The Wanderer (TV series), ''The Wanderer'' (TV series), a 1994 British television series starring Bryan Brown * Wanderer, a cha ...
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Paul Murray (rugby Union)
Paul Finbarr Murray (29 June 1905 — 1 June 1981) was an Irish rugby union international. One of nine siblings, Murray was born in Dublin and attended Blackrock College. Murray, who captained Dublin club Wanderers, played provincial rugby for Leinster and was capped 19 times for Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ..., debuting in 1927. He was a versatile back, making his Ireland appearances as a centre, out-half and scrum-half. In 1930, Murray made the British Lions squad for the tour of New Zealand and Australia, featuring in four of the five Tests. He was picked as a three-quarter, but ended up as the team's scrum-half, after Wilf Sobey got injured. A medical practitioner, Murray became an Ireland selector after retiring from rugby in 1934. He remained a ...
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London Welsh RFC
London Welsh Rugby Football Club () was a rugby union club formed in 1885. Based in Old Deer Park, Richmond-upon-Thames, London Welsh RFC played in the English Premiership in the 2012–13 and 2014–15 seasons, after gaining promotion from the RFU Championship in the 2012 and 2014 play-off final. The club returned to Old Deer Park in 2015 after three seasons at the Kassam Stadium, Oxford. The club went into liquidation in December 2016 and was given a temporary licence to complete two fixtures in the Championship. Chairman at the time Bleddyn Phillips claimed to have sold the club to a California-based investment group led by Welshman Trevor Owen Shaw, but no contract or funds ever materialised. On 24 January 2017 it was announced that London Welsh had been removed from the RFU Championship and their results expunged. The RFU stated that their place in the league was "untenable" and the club were dissolved. The remnants of the defunct club were amalgamated into their ...
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Tommy Jones-Davies
Thomas Ellis Jones-Davies (4 March 1906 – 25 August 1960) was a Welsh physician and international rugby union centre. He played club rugby for Llanelli and London Welsh. He won four caps for Wales and was a member of Doug Prentice's British Lions in their tour of New Zealand and Australia in 1930. Personal history Jones-Davies was born in Nantgaredig, Carmarthen to agricultural co-operative pioneer Henry Jones-DaviesJONES-DAVIES, HENRY (1870 - 1955)
''Dictionary of Welsh Biography''. and Winifred Anna Ellis. He was educated at and
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Redruth R
Redruth ( , ) is a town and civil parishes in Cornwall, civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. According to the 2011 census, the population of Redruth was 14,018 In the same year the population of the Camborne-Redruth urban area, which also includes Carn Brea, Redruth, Carn Brea, Illogan and several outlying villages, stood at 55,400 which made it the largest conurbation in Cornwall. Redruth lies approximately at the junction of the Great Britain road numbering scheme, A393 and A3047 roads, on the route of the old London to Land's End trunk road (now the A30 road, A30), and is approximately west of Truro, east of St Ives, Cornwall, St Ives, north east of Penzance and north west of Falmouth, Cornwall, Falmouth. Camborne and Redruth together form the largest urban area in Cornwall and before local government reorganisation were an Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), urban district. Toponymy The form ''Unyredruth'' (Euny being the patron saint) is recor ...
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Roy Jennings (rugby Union)
Roy Jennings (14 August 1905 – 5 October 1968) was an English international rugby union player. The son of a leather merchant, Jennings hailed from the Cornwall town of Redruth and was educated locally at Redruth County School, before completing his schooling at Taunton School Taunton School is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school, now co-educational, in the county town of Taunton in Somerset in South West England. It serves boarding and day-school pupils from the ages of 13 to 18. The current headmaster i .... Jennings spent his rugby career in Cornwall and was a prolific points–scorer for his club Redruth RFC, as a goal–kicking fullback and three–quarter. His first appearance for Cornwall was as a 19-year old against the "Invincible" 1924–25 All Blacks and he played a total of 61 matches for his county. He was a seven–time England trialist, without ever getting a call up, and in 1930 toured New Zealand and Australia with the British Lions. Over the ...
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Blackheath F
Blackheath may refer to: Places England * Blackheath, London, England ** Blackheath (Lewisham ward), an electoral ward for the Lewisham London Borough Council ** Blackheath railway station ** Hundred of Blackheath, Kent, an ancient hundred in the north west of the county of Kent, England * Blackheath, Surrey, England ** Hundred of Blackheath, Surrey ** Blackheath SSSI, Surrey, a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest * Blackheath, West Midlands, England Other places *Blackheath, New South Wales, Australia *Black Heath, Virginia, USA, a late 18th and 19th century plantation and coal mine *Blackheath, an industrial quarter of Cape Town, South Africa * Blackheath, Gauteng, in Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu language, Zulu and Xhosa language, Xhosa: eGoli ) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa. With 5,538,596 people in the City of Johannesburg alon ..., South Africa Education * Blackheath ...
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Tony Novis
Anthony Leslie Novis (22 September 1906 – 2 November 1997) was a rugby union international who represented England from 1929 to 1933. He also captained the English team.Tony Novis
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Novis made his international debut on 16 March 1929 at in the vs match. Of the 10 matches he played for his national side, he was ...
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Newport RFC
Newport Rugby Football Club () is a Welsh rugby union club based in the city of Newport, Wales. They presently play in the Super Rygbi Cymru. Until 2021 Newport RFC were based at Rodney Parade situated on the east bank of the River Usk. Every major rugby union touring team to visit Wales has played at Rodney Parade, and all of them were beaten at least once in the twentieth century by a side who, in 1951, played in the match at Cardiff RFC that attracted what was, a world-record crowd of 48,500 for a rugby union match between two clubs. In addition to matches against all the major national sides a highlight of the Newport season was the annual match against the Barbarians, ensuring that the Newport fans enjoyed watching world-class players to supplement the Welsh internationals who were a common feature of the 'Black and Ambers'. Newport supplied over 150 players to the Wales national team and international players to England, Scotland, Ireland, South Africa, Czech Republi ...
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Jack Morley
John Cuthbert Morley (28 July 1909 – 7 March 1972) was a Welsh international rugby wing who played rugby union for Newport and rugby league with Wigan. He won 14 caps for Wales in union, and five caps for Wales in rugby league, and was the first player to tour Australia and New Zealand for both union, and league British teams. Morley, although mainly a wing player was often used as a utility back, and was known for his incredible pace and ability to change direction at speed. He was an intelligent but unorthodox player. Club career Morley first represented Wales as a schoolboy, and after leaving Newport Municipal Secondary School he joined Newport. In his first season with the club he scored 29 tries, and by 1931 was captain of the senior Newport team, at the age of 21 he was the youngest player to be given the honour.Billot (1974), p. 136. He captained Newport against the touring South Africans at Rodney Parade on 8 October 1931, and set up Ken Richards for a try after ...
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