Sir Billy Boston Obituary: Remembering an Icon of Rugby

Rugby league legend Sir Billy Boston has died at the age of 92.

Sir Billy scored 478 tries in 487 matches for Wigan after making the switch from union to league in 1953.

The Welsh winger, who was born in Cardiff, revealed he had been living with vascular dementia in 2016.

He died in hospital overnight on 24 August, just four days after the funeral of his wife, Lady Joan, to whom he had been married for 70 years.

Sir Billy played for Wigan between 1953 and 1968, and then went on to play for Blackpool from 1969 to 1970.

He scored a total of 571 tries in his career, making him the second-highest try scorer in rugby league history.

After signing for Wigan, while still a teenager, for the price of £3,000, Sir Billy went on to win the league championship and three Challenge Cup finals.

He was awarded a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours for services to rugby league and the community, after a campaign led by former Makerfield MP Josh Simons.

It was the first time in rugby league's 130-year history that one of its players had been knighted.


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