William Owen Gooding 'Billy' Williams (19 November 1929) was a Welsh

Wales

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 international rugby union player. A prop forward, he played club rugby for Gowerton

Gowerton RFC

Gowerton Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union club based in Gowerton near Swansea, Wales; officially founded in 1884. Gowerton RFC is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Ospreys....

, Swansea

Swansea RFC

Swansea Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team which plays in the Welsh Premier Division. Its home ground is St Helens Rugby and Cricket Ground in Swansea. The team is sometimes known as The Whites because of the primary colour of the team strip...

 and the Royal Navy. At international level he represented Wales

Wales national rugby union team

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 on 22 occasions and was chosen to represent the British Isles

British and Irish Lions

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 team on their 1955 tour of South Africa.

On the 1955 British Isles Tour the all-Welsh front row of Billy Williams, Bryn Meredith

Bryn Meredith

Brinley "Bryn" Victor Meredith was a rugby union international. Meredith was a mobile hooker, he was selected 34 times for Wales between 1954 and 1962, but missed 2 matches for health and family bereavement reasons....

 and Courtney Meredith

Courtney Meredith

Courtney Meredith was a Welsh international rugby union prop who played club rugby for Neath. He won fourteen caps for Wales and also played for invitational club the Barbarians. Meredith was a powerful prop, and was much praised by second row players for his tight packing, which allowed them the...

 was selected for a Lions test match. This did not occur again until June 2009 when Gethin Jenkins

Gethin Jenkins

Gethin Jenkins is a Wales and British Lions international rugby union player, currently playing for Cardiff Blues. He is the most capped prop-forward for Wales.-Early career:...

, Adam Jones

Adam Rhys Jones

Adam Rhys Jones is a Welsh international rugby union player, currently playing for the Ospreys in the RaboDirect Pro12. His usual position is at tighthead prop...

 and Matthew Rees

Matthew Rees

Matthew Rees is a Wales and British Lions international rugby union footballer who currently plays for the Scarlets in the Celtic League. His usual position is at hooker...

 were selected as the British and Irish Lions

British and Irish Lions

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front row for the 2nd Test against South Africa.