Background
Uren was born at West Kirby on the Wirral Peninsula. His father, Harold Uren, was an association football player who played as an amateur for Liverpool F.C. and as a professional for Everton F.C.
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Uren was educated at Calday Grange Grammar School and served as a navigator with the Fleet Air Arm in World War 2.
Career
He represented Cheshire at both rugby union and golf and was also a successful racing sailor. After the war he went to the Midlands Agricultural College before joining the family firm of food merchants, H. J. Uren & Sons. He worked for the firm until he retired in 1986 and continued to go to the office until two days before his death.
Dick Uren played for Waterloo R.F.C. At international level Uren was capped four times by England as a full-back.
He played three games in the 1948 Five Nations Championship and one final game in the 1952 Five Nations Championship.
Uren scored two conversions in his first international and one penalty in his second, for a total of seven points for England. He played for the Barbarians and was selected for the 1950 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia but turned down the invitation for business reasons.
Achievements
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He represented the Cheshire county team and on one occasion kicked a penalty from half-way which put Cheshire into the final of the County Championship, a final which they won. As a racing sailor Uren led teams from West Kirby sailing club to win a competition called the Wilson Trophy in 1957 and 1959.
