| Date of birth | 4 August 1946 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 6 February 2016 (aged 69) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Cerne Abbas, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Sedbergh School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Shuttleworth College [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alastair Gourlay Biggar (4 August 1946 – 6 February 2016) was a Scotland international rugby union player. [2]
He went to Sedbergh School and played rugby for their school side. [3]
He played for London Scottish. [4] He joined the club in 1966. [5]
He was inducted into the London Scottish Hall of Fame in 2009. [5]
He played for Middlesex, East Midlands and Sussex. He played for South Eastern Counties in 1966 against Australia, with the London Counties side winning 14-9. [6]
He played for the Combined Scottish Districts on 26 November 1969 against the Combined Services side. The Scottish Districts won the match 31-12, with Biggar scoring two tries. [4]
Playing for Scotland Schools he was part of the Scotland side that beat England 57-0 in 1965. [5]
He was capped twelve times for his country, [2] between 1969 and 1972, including the Five Nations seasons of 1970, 1971 and 1972. His debut was Scotland's 6-3 win over South Africa. [7]
In the 1972 game against Wales, he sustained a hamstring injury. [8] He played England three times, winning every match. [9]
He toured New Zealand in 1971 with the British and Irish Lions. [10] He played 10 games on the tour scoring nine tries, but was not picked to play a test match. [11]
He played 7 matches for the Barbarians and scored 9 points, between 1968 and 1970. [6]
His father ran the family feed mill in Dalbeattie. On moving to London, Biggar became a foreign exchange broker. [11]
Fellow London Scottish and Scotland player Mike Biggar was his cousin, the Scotland flanker Douglas Elliot was his uncle. [11] He was married twice, with 2 children from the first marriage and one from the second marriage. [11]
He died on 6 February 2016 from cancer. [1]
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