James Dunlop (rugby union)
Birth name | James William Dunlop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 16 October 1854 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Coatbridge, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 20 November 1923 | (aged 69)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | St Boswells, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Cheltenham College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Colonel James Dunlop (1854-1923) was a Scotland international rugby football player.[1]
Rugby Union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]Dunlop played for West of Scotland.[2]
International career
[edit]He was capped once for Scotland on 8 March 1875.[3]
Military career
[edit]Dunlop was in the Royal Horse Artillery, entering the army in 1875. He rose through the ranks:- Captain in 1884; Major in 1892; Lieutenant - Colonel in 1900; and finally Colonel in 1904. He took part in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1879–80; the Third Anglo-Burmese War in 1886–87; and the Second Boer War in 1901–02.[4]
Family
[edit]Dunlop was unmarried.[4]
He was half-brother to Colin Dunlop of Lockerbie House, Dumfriesshire. His father was Colin Robert Dunlop of Fullarton House, Lanarkshire. His mother, Ann Maxwell Black, was a daughter of James Black of Craigmaddie.[5]
His ancestors included John Dunlop of Garnkirk, Cadder who was a burgess of Glasgow in 1631. Dunlop of Garnkirk's brother received a baronetcy, now extinct. Another ancestor was Colin Dunlop of Carmyle, who was Provost of Glasgow in 1770. Dunlop of Carmyle's grandson was Colin Dunlop of Tollcross, M.P. for Glasgow in 1835.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "James William Dunlop". ESPN scrum.
- ^ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
- ^ "Scotland v England". ESPN scrum.
- ^ a b "Register". Retrieved 17 March 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ a b "Register". Retrieved 17 March 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.