Rugby player
| Birth name | Alexander Inglis Aitken | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1869-01-08)8 January 1869 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 7 July 1925(1925-07-07) (aged 56) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Harare, Zimbabwe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alexander Aitken (8 January 1869 – 7 July 1925) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Aitken played club rugby for Edinburgh Institution F.P.
Provincial career
He played for Edinburgh District against Glasgow District in the 1888 inter-city match.
He played for East of Scotland District in their match against West of Scotland District on 26 January 1889.
International career
He was capped just the once for Scotland, in 1889. He played in the match against Ireland on 16 February.
Family
His father was Alexander Dunn Aitken (1818–1902) and his mother was Elizabeth Smith McClelland (1832-1915). He was one of their ten children.
References
- "Alexander Inglis Aitken". ESPN scrum.
- ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- "Register". Retrieved 17 March 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Alexander Aitken - Test matches". ESPN scrum.