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Rheinallt Hugh Lloyd-Davies (1926–1986) was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s, playing representative level rugby union (RU) for Wales XV, at university for Cambridge University RFC, and at club level for Ammanford RFC, as a Fullback, i.e. number 15, and playing club level rugby league (RL) for Barrow, playing at , i.e. number 1. ==Personal history== Lloyd-Davies was born in Tycroes near Ammanford, Wales in 1925 as Rheinallt Lloyd Hughes Davies and christened the next year.〔Watkins (2001), pp. 213–220〕 His father was a bus conductor in the firm Williams and Rees, though his family had a substantial interest in the company through his mother's side (née Rees).〔 Known as a child as Hugh Lloyd Davies, he lived with his grandparents whose house was attached to the bus firms garage. His parents and siblings Heddwyn and Mair, lived in the house opposite.〔 He was educated at Amman Valley County School and represented the Welsh Schools at rugby.〔 He married Mary Michael a school teacher.〔 After leaving school he joined the RAF and served his country during the Second World War. Before enlisting he went on a course to Trinity Hall, Cambridge and was promised a place at the college on completing his war service. At Trinity Hall he read Law and intended to become a barrister. The journalist Alan Watkins, described Lloyd-Davies as a terrible snob and stated that Lloyd-Davies added the hyphen to his surname and described himself as coming from 'an old Carmarthenshire county family' in an attempt to improve his social status.〔 A womaniser and carouser Lloyd-Davies was often in trouble with his university.〔 On leaving Trinity he entered Gray's Inn, though he was never called to the bar, and lived for a while in London where he turned out for local team Harlequin F.C., though after running up debts he needed to be bailed out by the club's president, and local MP, Sir Wavell Wakefield.〔 In 1951 he was imprisoned after he fraudulently obtained a diamond ring and gold cufflinks which he later pawned. He was sentenced to nine months and it was stated that he was also receiving treatment for issues connected to alcohol.〔 He was arrested and imprisoned a second time, after stealing an overcoat from Gray's Inn library. On his release he returned briefly to Tycroes before heading back to London. There he passed himself off as a colonel and he ended up working as a gardener for Islington council and for a period was homeless.〔 He is said to have died in Islington, London in 1986.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hugh Lloyd-Davies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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