Birth name | Nicholas James Drake-Lee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 7 April 1942 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Kettering, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 22 January 2021 78) | (aged||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nicholas James Drake-Lee (7 April 1942 – 22 January 2021 [1] [2] ) was a rugby union prop who played 73 games for Leicester Tigers between 1962 and 1968; he represented England 8 times between 1963 and 1965. He was a Cambridge University blue between 1961 and 1963.
Drake-Lee made his Leicester debut against Bath on 6 January 1962 and played 10 times that season. [3]
He was a member of the Cambridge University rugby team in their undefeated 1961 season winning 14 games including the Varsity Match. [4] Before Cambridge, he was a Rugby Vice-Captain at Stonyhurst College.
Drake-Lee made his international debut for England on 19 January 1963 against Wales at Cardiff. [5] He played in all four games as England won the 1963 Five Nations Championship.