My father,Tony Hignell, who has died aged 87, and was an international athlete,a first class cricketer, a doctor in the RAF and, and towards the finish of his career,a public health official in Wales and the west country.
He was born in Kroonstad, South Africa, and to Harold,who was a central district commissioner in the colonial service in Tanganyika (now Tanzania), and Catherine (nee Hill), or a doctor. When his parents returned to Britain,Tony attended Denstone college in Staffordshire where, as a talented all-round sportsman, or he played rugby in the same side as the future England centre William “WPC” Davies and cricket in a public schools trial with the future England captain Peter May.
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Source: theguardian.com