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Ranald Cuthbertson
Scottish rugby union player
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.
| Birth name | Ranald Ker Cuthbertson | ||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1899-08-20)20 August 1899 | ||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||
| Date of death | 28 December 1983(1983-12-28) (aged 84) | ||||||||||||
| Place of death | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||
| School | Edinburgh Academy | ||||||||||||
| Rugby union career | |||||||||||||
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| 73rd President of the Scottish Rugby Union | |||||||||||||
| In office 1959–1960 | |||||||||||||
| Preceded by | David MacMyn | ||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | David Kerr | ||||||||||||
Amateur career
Cuthbertson went to Edinburgh Academy and graduated in 1916. He then played for Edinburgh Academicals.[1]
Administrative career
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]
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]
- "School Leaving Certificate Exams - Genealogy and Family History in Scotland". Oldscottish.com. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
- "Club Presidents". The Edinburgh Academical Football Club 1857. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
- "Archived copy" (PDF). www.thegazette.co.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 April 2020. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
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