Ronald Cumming
Birth name | Ronald Stuart Cumming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 4 April 1900 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Aberlour, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 17 November 1982 | (aged 82)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Rothes, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ronald Cumming (4 April 1900 – 17 November 1982) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
Rugby Union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]Cumming played for Aberdeen University.[1]
Provincial career
[edit]He played for North of Scotland District.[2]
International career
[edit]He played for Scotland twice in 1922.[3]
Business career
[edit]He followed into the family business in the whisky industry. He became Chairman of the Scottish Whisky Association in 1961.[4] He became Chairman of Distillers Company Ltd. in 1963.[5]
Family
[edit]His parents were John Fleetwood Cumming (1863-1933) and Beatrice Gordon Bryson Kynoch (1865-1906). John Fleetwood Cumming was a Moray councillor and owner of the Cardhu distillery near Knockando, which was founded by his grandfather in 1824. They had 2 sons Lewis Robertson Cumming (1892-1914), John Kynoch Cumming (1896-1927) and 1 daughter Elizabeth Cumming (1898-1989) as well as Ronald. His father remarried Isobel Field when Beatrice died, they had a daughter in 1909 that died in infancy. Lewis joined the Black Watch and died in the Great War; John was wounded and taken prisoner.[6]
Ronald married Mary Hendrie (1904-1990) in Wentworth, Ontario in Canada in 1925. They had 2 daughters Elizabeth Bryson Cumming (1926-2015) and Mary Stuart Cumming (1929-1990). Mary Hendrie received an O.B.E. in 1953.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
- ^ "Register". Retrieved 30 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Ronald Cumming - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
- ^ "Register". Retrieved 30 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ a b "Register". Retrieved 30 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Register". Retrieved 30 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.