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Antony Warr

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Antony 'Tim' Warr
Birth nameAntony Lawley Warr
Date of birth15 May 1913
Place of birthSelly Oak, Warwickshire, England
Date of death29 January 1995(1995-01-29) (aged 81)
Place of deathTaunton, Somerset, England
Rugby union career
Position(s) Wing
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
Old Leodiensians
Wakefield
Yorkshire
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International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1934 England 2 (3)

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

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  1. ^ "Tim Warr". Scrum.com.
  2. ^ a b Wakefield Rugby Football Club—1901-2001 A Centenary History. Written and compiled by David Ingall in 2001.
  3. ^ "Lists of matches and detailed statistics for Antony Warr". CricketArchive.
  4. ^ "BBC - WW2 People's War - the Sandhurst Experience: Prior to Joining 141st Regiment RAC(The Buffs)". Archived from the original on 3 June 2006. Retrieved 9 August 2009.
  5. ^ "Obituaries in 1995". 6 December 2005.
  6. ^ "Uttleys wealth of experience guides Harrow to unrivalled achievement". The Times. London. 23 December 2002. Retrieved 25 April 2010.[dead link]
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