Birth name | Michael Williment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 25 February 1940 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Wellington, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 5 September 1994 | (aged 54)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Wellington, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 89 kg (196 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Rongotai College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable relative(s) | Marc Ellis (nephew) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Travel company proprietor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Michael Williment (25 February 1940 – 5 September 1994) was a New Zealand rugby union and cricket player, and co-founder of sports tour company Williment World Travel.
A fullback, Williment represented Wellington at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1964 to 1967. He played nine matches for the All Blacks, all of them internationals. [2]
Williment was also a promising cricketer. A right-arm medium-fast bowler and right-handed lower-order batsman, he played for the Wellington under-20 side in the 1958–59 and 1959-60 seasons. [1]
Williment married Rosemary Leonora Frances Ellis, the daughter of Cyclax (New Zealand) general manager John Clifford Gwynne Ellis, and together the couple established Williment World Travel, a sports tour company, in 1968. [3] [4] Williment died from cancer in Wellington in 1994, [2] [3] and was buried at Taitā Lawn Cemetery. [5] Rosemary Williment continued to run the travel business until 2001, when she sold the company to senior management. She had remarried lawyer Warren Allen in 1998, and died in 2012. [3]