Willie John McBride Willie John McBride William James McBride, MBE, better known as Willie John McBride (born 6 June 1940) is a former rugby union footballer who played as a lock for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions. He played 63 Tests for Ireland including eleven as captain, and toured with the Lions five times — a record that gave him 17 Lions Test caps. He also captained the most successful ever Lions side, which toured South Africa in 1974. McBride was born at Toomebridge, County Antrim. Owing to his father's death when he was five years old, he spent most of
John R. McBride he died in 1904. He was interred at Germany Hill Cemetery in St. Helens, Oregon. McBride's youngest brother, George W. McBride, served as a United States Senator from Oregon. His other younger brother Thomas A. McBride was the chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court three times. John R. McBride John Rogers McBride (August 22, 1832 – July 20, 1904) was a Republican U.S. congressman from Oregon. McBride was born near St. Louis, Missouri in 1832, the son of James McBride. In 1851, he moved with his family to Lafayette, Oregon where he became the superintendent of schools at the