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| Birth name | Erith Gwyn Nicholls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 15 July 1874 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Westbury-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 24 March 1939 (aged 64) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Dinas Powys, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Howard Gardens | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable relative(s) | Bert Winfield, brother in law Sydney Nicholls, brother Jack Nicholls, nephew | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Erith Gwyn Nicholls (15 July 1874 – 24 March 1939)[2] was a Welsh rugby union player who gained 24 caps for Wales as a centre. Nicholls was known as the "Prince of Threequarters".[3]
Born in Westbury-on-Severn, Nicholls started his rugby career with Cardiff Star[4] before playing in the Cardiff first team from 1893. He spent all his playing career with Cardiff, playing 18 seasons for them, apart from half a season with Newport in 1901/2 when he began a laundry business there with fellow Welsh international Bert Winfield.[3] He captained Cardiff for four seasons; 1898/9 through to 1900/1 and again in 1903/04.
- ^ Welsh Rugby Union player profiles[permanent dead link]
- ^ Newport RFC player profiles Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Smith (1980), pg 128.
- ^ Parry-Jones (1999), pg 26.