Bill Beaumont
Rugby Player
Former lock for England who also played for Lancashire from 1972 to 1982. He later became Chairman of the Rugby Football Union.
He began playing for Fylde Rugby Club as a seventeen-year-old in 1969.
He won a then-record thirty-four caps for England as a lock.
His family has owned a textile business in Lancashire, England.
He and Lawrence Dallaglio are both former English national rugby union team captains.