Larry Webb

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| full_name = St Lawrence Hugh Webb

| birth_date = {{birth date|1931|03|07|df=y}}

| birth_place = Melbourne, Australia

| death_date = {{death date and age|1978|05|30|1931|03|07|df=y}}

| death_place = at sea

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| school = St George's School

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| position = Prop

| repyears1 = 1959

| repteam1 = {{nrut|England}}

| repcaps1 = 4

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St Lawrence Hugh Webb (7 March 1931 – 30 May 1978) was an English international rugby union player.

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Webb was the son of a property developer who owned the Chequers Cinema in St Albans, Hertfordshire, and grew up in the village of Redbourn. He attended St George's School in Harpenden.{{cite news |title=Paris trip ended in disaster |url=https://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/252098.paris-trip-ended-in-disaster/ |work=St Albans & Harpenden Review |date=5 December 2002 |language=en}}

Webb played over 300 games for Bedford and was capped by England four times as a prop in the 1959 Five Nations.{{cite news |last1=Robertson |first1=Frank |title=Four feared dead in lunch-trip helicopter crash |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/750616817 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=31 May 1978}}

A wealthy businessman, Webb made considerable money selling his plant hire firm to Bovis Construction. He died in 1978, piloting a Bell 206 helicopter that crashed at sea on the way back from Le Touquet, at the age of 47.{{cite news |title=Tycoon found |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/790145222 |work=Daily Mirror |date=20 June 1978}}

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