Which Midlands town links Rupert Brooke and William Webb Ellis
William Webb Ellis to Webb Ellis, and that a big donation by Bloxam to Rugby School's library may have influenced school official acceptance of this Webb Ellis version. A plaque, erected in 1895, at Rugby School bears the inscription: THIS STONE<br> COMMEMORATES THE EXPLOIT OF<br> WILLIAM WEBB ELLIS<br> WHO WITH A FINE DISREGARD FOR THE RULES OF FOOTBALL<br> AS PLAYED IN HIS TIME<br> FIRST TOOK THE BALL IN HIS ARMS AND RAN WITH IT<br> THUS ORIGINATING THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF<br> THE RUGBY GAME<br> A.D. 1823<br> William Webb Ellis The Reverend William Webb Ellis (24 November 1806 – 24 January 1872) was an English
Rupert Brooke notes, but he died before writing the manuscript. Halliburton's notes were used by Arthur Springer to write "Red Wine of Youth—A Biography of Rupert Brooke" (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1952). Rupert Brooke Rupert Chawner Brooke (middle name sometimes given as "Chaucer;" 3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier.” He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England.” Brooke was born