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JPR Timeline

The Late-JPR Williams will be remembered as one of the most iconic figures of Rugby Union. 

They say that some people are born with greatness and that others have it thrust upon them, JPR demanded it of himself and earned it throughout his life in so many different ways’   --Mervyn Davies                 

JOHN PETER RHYS WILLIAMS MBE: TIMELINE

1949 Born March 2nd

1953-9 Laleston County Primary School

1959-60 Bryntiron Prep School

1960-6 Bridgend Boys Grammar School

1966-7 Millfield School

1966 British Junior Hardcourt Title at Wimbledon Tennis Title

1967-73 St Mary’s Hospital Medical School

1967 Welsh Secondary Schools rugby cap (3)

1968 Welsh rugby tour to Argentina

1968 1st Bachelor of Medicine

1969 Full Welsh Cap

1970 2nd Bachelor of Medicine

1971 British Lions tour of NZ (all four tests)

1973 Barbarians v New Zealand ‘the greatest match’

1974 British Lions tour of South Africa (all four tests)

1975 Wales tour of Japan

1977 Rothman’s Player of 1976-77

1977 Appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

1978 Wales tour of Australia

1979 Wales 50th cap

1979 This is Your Life

1981 Final Wales cap (55)

1997 Inductee to International Rugby Hall of Fame

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