Rugby player
| Birth name | Alexander Weir Robertson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1877-12-11)11 December 1877 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 28 October 1941(1941-10-28) (aged 63) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Gullane, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alec Robertson (11 December 1877 – 28 October 1941) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
He played for Watsonians in 1896.
Robertson played rugby union for Edinburgh Academicals in 1897.
Provincial career
He played for Edinburgh District in their inter-city match against Glasgow District in 1896.
International career
Robertson was capped once by Scotland, in 1897.
Outside of rugby union
He was one of the landed gentry with the family name of Robertson-Durham. He was a chartered accountant and Justice of the Peace.
He died in 1941 and is buried in the graveyard of Dirleton Kirk.
References
- "Alexander Weir Robertson". ESPN scrum.
- ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Book Publishing. 2003
- "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Alec Robertson - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
- Walford, Edward (1 January 1860). "The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland". Dalcassian Publishing Company – via Google Books.
- "Alexander Weir Robertson-Durham (1877-1941) -..." www.findagrave.com.
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