Antony Warr
| Birth name | Antony Lawley Warr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 15 May 1913 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Selly Oak, Warwickshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 29 January 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Taunton, Somerset, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Antony Lawley 'Tim' Warr (15 May 1913 – 29 January 1995) was an English rugby union player who represented the England national rugby union team. He also played first-class cricket with Oxford University.
Warr's two national caps came during the 1934 Home Nations Championship, where England claimed the triple crown. A winger, he scored a try on debut against Wales and made his other appearance against Ireland.[1]
He played club rugby for Old Leodiensians before joining Wakefield during the 1936/37 season, scoring fourteen tries in twelve games in the two seasons he spent at the club. He also played seven times for Yorkshire and gained a blue for Oxford.[2]
As a cricketer, Warr kept wicket for Oxford University in four first-class matches in 1933 and 1934. He spent some time playing with the Army during the 1940s and in 1950 he represented the Marylebone Cricket Club in a first-class match against Ireland in Dublin.[3]
During the second world war, he was the officer in charge of PT at Sandhurst [4]
A school teacher by profession, he taught at Leeds Grammar School [2] before teaching at Harrow School for over thirty years [5] where he designed the Harrow first XV pitch.[6]
References
- ^ "Tim Warr". Scrum.com.
- ^ a b Wakefield Rugby Football Club—1901-2001 A Centenary History. Written and compiled by David Ingall in 2001.
- ^ "Lists of matches and detailed statistics for Antony Warr". CricketArchive.
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/41/a2537741.shtml
- ^ http://www.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228743.html
- ^ "Uttleys wealth of experience guides Harrow to unrivalled achievement". The Times. London. 23 December 2002. Retrieved 25 April 2010.