He north Wales-born, Cardiff High School educated centre who four caps for the Wales Secondary Schools over three seasons between 1952-54 before going on to win eight senior caps.
He had his first senior trial for Wales when he was still playing for Cardiff High School Old Boys in December 1957, starting at centre for the Whites in a 16-16 draw with the Reds.
At the start of the next season 1958-59 he joined Cardiff and made the first of his 225 appearances for the Blue & Blacks against Group Captain Walker’s XV at the Arms Park.
He scored 58 tries for the club and was captain in the 1964-65 season, playing in 41 of their 48 games. He played against both the Springboks (1960) and the All Blacks (1963) for Cardiff.
His Wales debut came against the South African tourists in a 3-0 defeat in one of the wettest and muddiest games ever recorded in the Welsh capital. The next day the River Taff flooded, and the ground was submerged under feet of water.
His third game against the tourists was an altogether happier occasion when he made his one and only appearance for the Barbarians in what proved to be the only defeat, 6-0, for Avril Malan’s South African tourists on 4 February 1961.
He joins five other Welsh caps in their ‘nineties’ in Lynn ‘Cowboy’ Davies, Harry Morgan, Bryn Meredith, Alun Priday and Ron Waldron. Next in line is Newport’s Brian Jones, who is 89 next month.
WALES’ OLDEST LIVING INTERNATIONALS
| NAME | DOB | AGE | CAPPED | CAPS |
| Lynn ‘Cowboy’ Davies | 30.12.1929 | 94 | 1956 | 3 |
| Harry Morgan | 16.06.1930 | 94 | 1956 | 4 |
| Bryn Meredith | 21.10.1930 | 93 | 1954-1962 | 34 / 8 Lions |
| Alun Priday | 23.01.1933 | 91 | 1958-1961 | 2 |
| Ron Waldron | 14.12.1933 | 90 | 1965 | 4 |
| Meirion Roberts | 11.09.1934 | 90 | 1960-1963 | 8 |
| Brian Jones | 10.10.1935 | 88 | 1960 | 2 |
