Arthur Marshall (rugby union)

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Arthur Marshall
Birth nameArthur Marshall
Date of birth(1855-04-27)27 April 1855
Place of birth Edinburgh, Scotland
Date of death9 December 1909(1909-12-09) (aged 54)
Place of death Chislehurst, Bromley, England
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
- Edinburgh Academicals ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1874- Edinburgh District ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1875 Scotland 1 (0)

Arthur Marshall was a Scotland international rugby football player. [1]

Contents

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Marshall played for Edinburgh Academicals. [2]

Provincial career

Marshall played for Edinburgh District in the 1874–75 season and the 1875–76 season. [3]

International career

He was capped once for Scotland on 8 March 1875. [4]

Family

Marshall was the son of David Captain Marshall and Christina Thomson Morgan. Arthur was one of their seven children. [5]

It was noted that Marshall died in Erpingham, Chislehurst in the borough of Bromley on the 9 December 1909, following an operation. [6]

References

  1. "Arthur Marshall". ESPN scrum.
  2. Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
  3. "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  4. "Scotland v England". ESPN scrum.
  5. "Ancestry - Sign In". www.ancestry.co.uk.
  6. "Register" . Retrieved 17 March 2023 via British Newspaper Archive.