Rugby player
| Birth name | Graham Tullis Ross | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1928-07-05)5 July 1928 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 13 February 2009(2009-02-13) (aged 80) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | George Watsons College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Graham Ross (5 July 1928 – 13 February 2009) was a Scotland international rugby union footballer, who played as a fly-half.
Rugby union career
Amateur career
Ross played for Watsonians.
He also played for Edinburgh Academicals and Wasps.
Provincial career
Ross played for Edinburgh District. He played in Scottish Inter-District Championship. He played in the 1954–55 season.
He played for the Co-Optimists.
International career
He was capped for Scotland four times in 1954.
Business career
Ross trained in the Scottish Hotel School and then worked in the Savoy Hotel in London and then in Switzerland.
He joined McVities Guest in 1955 as a Catering Director.
This was taken over by Rank Hovis MacDougall in 1963. Ross worked for them before setting up his own company Ross's Restaurants.
He sold the company to United Biscuits in 1975.
He became the Managing Director of Crawford Catering Company.
In 1981 he worked as an Executive Director of Scottish Business in the Community. Ross set up 47 Local Enterprise trusts around Scotland creating jobs.
He received an OBE in 1990.
References
- "Graham Tullis Ross".
- The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
- "Graham Ross And Oliver Turnbull - Scottish Rugby Union". Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
- "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ "Graham Ross".
- "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Graham Ross - Test matches".
- ^ "A natural ability at rugby capped Graham Ross's career".
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- 1928 births
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