Rugby player
| Birth name | Hugh Brooks Wright | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1875-11-07)7 November 1875 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Inveraray, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 24 December 1953(1953-12-24) (aged 78) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Leeds, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hugh Wright, (7 November 1875 – 24 December 1953) was a Scotland international rugby football player.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
He played for Watsonians.
Provincial career
Wright played for Edinburgh District in the 1893 inter-city match.
He played for Cities District in 1893.
He played for East of Scotland District in 1894.
International career
He was capped once for Scotland in 1894.
Coaching career
He coached Harrogate Old Boys; and was for a time, a coach at Ampleforth College.
Boxing career
He was a Scottish amateur boxing champion.
Rowing career
He was a keen rower, and was in the Portbello Amateur Rowing Club.
Family
He was born to Quintin Montgomery Wright (1826-1886), a solicitor, and Prudence Elizabeth Blake Giraud (1825-1919). Hugh was one of their nine children.
Hugh married Dora Jane Hutton (1885-1939) in Wetherby, Yorkshire in 1907.
Death
He died at Leeds General Infirmary. He is buried in St. Mary's churchyard in Boston Spa, Yorkshire.
References
- "Hugh Brooks Wright". ESPN scrum.
- The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
- "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000060/18931225/008/0003 – via British Newspaper Archive.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - "The Field, 27 January 1894". Retrieved 17 March 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- "Wales v Scotland". ESPN scrum.
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19531230/086/0003 – via British Newspaper Archive.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000452/18970531/124/0005 – via British Newspaper Archive.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001774/19071107/057/0004 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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