Lloyd Williams (rugby Union, Born 1933)
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Lloyd Hugh Williams (19 October 1933 – 25 February 2017) was a Welsh international
rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
player. He captained the
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on three occasions in 1961–62. Williams played his club rugby for
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and was the younger brother of another Welsh international rugby union player and captain,
Bleddyn Williams Bleddyn Llewellyn Williams MBE (22 February 1923 – 6 July 2009), was a Welsh rugby union centre. He played in 22 internationals for Wales, captaining them five times, winning each time, and captained the British Lions in 1950 for some of t ...
. Lloyd Williams died in February 2017 aged 83.


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