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Robin Welsh
British curler, Scotland international rugby union player, and tennis player
Robin Welsh (20 October 1869 – 21 October 1934)[2] was a Scottish sportsman who represented the Royal Caledonian Curling Club as a curler in the Winter Olympics, represented Scotland in tennis[3] and played international rugby union for Scotland.[4]
Date of birth | (1869-10-20)20 October 1869 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 21 October 1934(1934-10-21) (aged 65) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Edinburgh, Scotland[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | George Watson's College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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46th President of the Scottish Rugby Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 1925–1926 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Robert Campbell MacKenzie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | James Aikman Smith | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Amateur career
He played for Watsonians.[5]
Provincial career
He played for Edinburgh District.[6] He also played for Cities District.[7]
International career
He was capped four times for Scotland between 1895 and 1896.[8]
Referee career
He was an international referee. He refereed the England versus Ireland match in 1902;[9] the Wales versus England match in 1903;[10] and the Ireland versus England match in 1905.[11]
He refereed in the Scottish Unofficial Championship.[12][13][14]
Administrative career
He was President of the Scottish Rugby Union for the period 1925 to 1926.[15]
He was part of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club team which won the first Olympic Gold medal in curling at the inaugural Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, in 1924.
- Robin Welsh rugby profile Scrum.com
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Robin Welsh". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- "Register". Retrieved 29 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- "Register". Retrieved 29 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- "Register". Retrieved 29 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- "Register". Retrieved 29 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- Robin Welsh at World Curling
- Robin Welsh at ESPNscrum
- Robin Welsh at Olympics.com
- Robin Welsh at Olympedia
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