Nicky Williams
Brother of John, the Williams family lived at one time in St. Marys Terrace and then Alphington House, Penzance, before moving to Menwinnion, Lamorna.
Educated at St. Erbyns School and then Rugby School (both brothers were skippers there), Nicky, the elder brother, then became a Royal Marine Commando, seeing service in Hong Kong.
Returning to civilian life and becoming an Article Clerk to a solicitor when living at Gulval, Nicky captained the Pirates in 1947-48 and 1948-49, a period when he also played 8 times for Cornwall.
A powerful, well-built wing/centre, he had a great hand-off and was considered a real leader whose players talks did much to improve the play of the side.
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Both Nicky and John also played for Harlequins, Nicky working as a solicitor in his fathers London office (as he did later in India) before eventually rising to become Managing Director of Burma Oil a time of peripatetic (meaning going from place to place) existence.
Having eventually settled to live in the village of Ewen (Gloucestershire), Nicky has recently returned to Cornish roots to a chosen home at Port Navas.
A point of interest Nicky and John form the only set of brothers to have captained the Pirates.
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