Bill Auld
| Birth name | William Auld | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 25 April 1868 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 19 July 1945 (aged 77) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Bridge of Weir, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bill Auld OBE (25 April 1868 – 19 July 1945) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1]
Rugby Union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]He played rugby union for West of Scotland.[2]
Provincial career
[edit]He was capped by Glasgow District in the inter-city match of 1887.[3]
He was capped by West of Scotland District in their match against East of Scotland District on 11 February 1888.[4]
International career
[edit]Auld played twice for Scotland; in the 1889 Home Nations Championship match against Wales on 2 February 1889;[5] and in the 1890 Home Nations Championship match against Wales on 1 February 1890.[6]
Military career
[edit]He served in the First World War in the Labour Corps and was given an O.B.E. in 1919. He was active in the Territorial Army.[7]
Business career
[edit]He became a stockbroker and was well known in the Glasgow Stock Exchange. He became its chairman in 1931-32. He was a senior partner in the firm Auld and MacEwan.[7] On his death the National Probate Calendar lists Auld's address as the business address of Auld and McEwan as 24 St. Vincent Place, Glasgow; not using his home address of The Grange, Bridge of Weir.[8]
Family
[edit]His father was William Auld; and his mother was Isabella Black Dill.
He married Winifred Alice Burton. They had one son William Connel Auld, born in 1902; and two daughters.
His son William Connel Auld married Barbara Keelan, the daughter of D.H. Keelan of India State Railways, on the 26 November 1930 in Calcutta.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "William Auld". ESPN scrum.
- ^ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Book Publishing. 2003
- ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ "The Scotsman 13 February 1888" – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Scotland v Wales". ESPN scrum.
- ^ "Wales v Scotland". ESPN scrum.
- ^ a b "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ "(111) - Towns > Glasgow > 1828-1912 - Post-Office annual Glasgow directory > 1901-1902 - Scottish Directories - National Library of Scotland".
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19301010/110/0006 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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