- Date of Birth20 / 05 / 1916
- Died17 / 07 / 2015
- Lions Tours1936
- International CapsLions
- Lions Origin SchoolsTonbridge School Kent
- Lions Origin ClubsBarbarians, Cambridge University RFC
The Reverend Professor William “Owen” Chadwick was part of the Lions team which toured Argentina in 1936, winning all their ten games, including a 23-0 victory against the Argentinian national side, in which Chadwick played in his favoured position as hooker.
Educated at Tonbridge School, Chadwick won three Rugby Blues at Cambridge University and also played for the Barbarians.
He then went on to become one of the greatest religious historians of his age, noted for the wide variety of subjects he treated.
At the time of his death – in 2015 – Chadwick was the oldest living British & Irish Lion at the age of 99.