Bill Auld

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Bill Auld
Birth nameWilliam Auld
Date of birth(1868-04-25)25 April 1868
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death19 July 1945(1945-07-19) (aged 77)
Place of death Bridge of Weir, Scotland
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
- West of Scotland ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1887 Glasgow District ()
1888 West of Scotland District ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1889-90 Scotland 2 (0)

Bill Auld OBE (25 April 1868 – 19 July 1945) was a Scotland international rugby union player. [1]

Contents

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played rugby union for West of Scotland. [2]

Provincial career

He was capped by Glasgow District in the inter-city match of 1887. [3]

He was capped by West of Scotland District in their match against East of Scotland District on 11 February 1888. [4]

International career

Auld played twice for Scotland; in the 1889 Home Nations Championship match against Wales on 2 February 1889; [5] and in the 1890 Home Nations Championship match against Wales on 1 February 1890. [6]

Military career

He served in the First World War in the Labour Corps and was given an O.B.E. in 1919. He was active in the Territorial Army. [7]

Business career

He became a stockbroker and was well known in the Glasgow Stock Exchange. He became its chairman in 1931-32. He was a senior partner in the firm Auld and MacEwan. [7] On his death the National Probate Calendar lists Auld's address as the business address of Auld and McEwan as 24 St. Vincent Place, Glasgow; not using his home address of The Grange, Bridge of Weir. [8]

Family

His father was William Auld; and his mother was Isabella Black Dill.

He married Winifred Alice Burton. They had one son William Connel Auld, born in 1902; and two daughters.

His son William Connel Auld married Barbara Keelan, the daughter of D.H. Keelan of India State Railways, on the 26 November 1930 in Calcutta. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "William Auld". ESPN scrum.
  2. ↑ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Book Publishing. 2003
  3. ↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  4. ↑ "The Scotsman 13 February 1888" – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Scotland v Wales". ESPN scrum.
  6. ↑ "Wales v Scotland". ESPN scrum.
  7. 1 2 "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  8. ↑ "(111) - Towns > Glasgow > 1828-1912 - Post-Office annual Glasgow directory > 1901-1902 - Scottish Directories - National Library of Scotland".
  9. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19301010/110/0006 – via British Newspaper Archive.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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