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Ranald Cuthbertson

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Ranald Cuthbertson
Birth nameRanald Ker Cuthbertson
Date of birth(1899-08-20)20 August 1899
Place of birthEdinburgh, Scotland
Date of death28 December 1983(1983-12-28) (aged 84)
Place of deathEdinburgh, Scotland
SchoolEdinburgh Academy
Rugby union career
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
- Edinburgh Academicals ()
73rd President of the Scottish Rugby Union
In office
1959–1960
Preceded byDavid MacMyn
Succeeded byDavid Kerr

Ranald Cuthbertson W.S. (20 August 1899 - 28 December 1983) was a Scottish rugby union player. He was the 73rd President of the Scottish Rugby Union.

Rugby Union career

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Amateur career

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Cuthbertson went to Edinburgh Academy and graduated in 1916. He then played for Edinburgh Academicals.[1]

Administrative career

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Cuthberson was appointed Honorary Secretary of Edinburgh Academicals junior side in 1926,[2] and took on the same role for the main team in 1932.[3] He was also a director of the Infirmary Sevens in Edinburgh till 1934.[4]

In 1936, Cuthertson was elected to the committee of the Scottish Rugby Union, replacing A. I. S. McPherson of Edinburgh Academicals.[5] As a member of the committee, he travelled to Wales in 1939 with the Scotland international team for their match at Cardiff;,[6] and to Dublin for their match against Ireland.[7]

Cuthbertson acted as president of Edinburgh Academicals from 1948 to 1950.[8]

He was on the board of the International Rugby Board in 1954,[9] and in 1959 he became the 73rd President of the Scottish Rugby Union, a role he fulfilled for the standard term of one year.[10]

Outside of rugby union

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After he left the Edinburgh Academy, Cuthbertson signed up to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in 1917.[11]

Cuthbertson played cricket for Edinburgh Academicals,[12] and was also a noted angler.[13]

Professionally, Cuthbertson was a lawyer, and a Writer to the Signet.[14] He joined the firm Mackenzie, Innes and Logan before moving on to the board of Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society.[15] He was a director of the Floors Stud Company of Kelso, the firm that the Duke of Roxburghe used to maintain his estate; Floors Castle was on the Duke's estate.[16]

References

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  1. ^ "School Leaving Certificate Exams - Genealogy and Family History in Scotland". Oldscottish.com. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  2. ^ "Article". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
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  6. ^ "Article". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  7. ^ "Article". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  8. ^ "Club Presidents". The Edinburgh Academical Football Club 1857. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  9. ^ "Article". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  10. ^ "Data" (PDF). s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  11. ^ "Info". www.ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  12. ^ "Article". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  13. ^ "Article". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  14. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). www.thegazette.co.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 April 2020. Retrieved 14 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  15. ^ "Article". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  16. ^ "Article". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-06.