death_date death_place birth_place ru_nationalyears ru_nationalcaps article_title school name birth_date ru_nationalpoints ru_position birth_name ru_amateuryears university
11 october 1921 beccles , england fishguard , wales 1885 & ndash ; 1891 1888 11 0 willie thomas
 llandovery college willie thomas 22 march 1866 -lrb- 0 -rrb- -lrb- 0 -rrb- forward william henry thomas ? -1886 british isles corpus christi college , cambridge
willie thomas

william ` willie ' henry thomas -lrb- 22 march 1866 -- 11 october 1921 -rrb- was a welsh international rugby union player who played club rugby for llanelli and london welsh .
he was capped eleven times for wales and captained the team on two occasions .
in 1888 , thomas was chosen to tour new zealand and australia as part of the first british isles team .
this unofficial tour did not play any international opposition and no caps were awarded .
thomas was born in fishguard in 1866 to e.b. thomas of pembrokeshire .
he was educated at llandovery college before graduating to corpus christi college , cambridge in 1885 .
