Bryce Allan

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Bryce Allan
Birth nameBryce Allan
Date of birth(1859-03-01)1 March 1859
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death22 August 1922(1922-08-22) (aged 63)
Place of death Wemyss Bay, Scotland
Notable relative(s) Alexander Allan, grandfather
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
- Glasgow Academicals ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1880 Glasgow District ()
1881 West of Scotland District ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1881 Scotland 1 (0)

Bryce Allan (1 March 1859 – 22 August 1922) was a Scotland international rugby union player. [1]

Contents

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played for Glasgow Academicals. [2]

Provincial career

He played for Glasgow District in their inter-city match against Edinburgh District on 4 December 1880. [3]

He played for West of Scotland District in their match against East of Scotland District on 5 February 1881. [4]

International career

He was capped for Scotland just the once, in 1881, against Ireland. [5]

Business career

He became a merchant and shipowner, along with his brothers Henry Allan and Richard Gilkinson Allan. They ran the Clyde firm, the Allan Line Steamship Company; founded by their grandfather Alexander Allan.

In 1905, he took a lease of the North Bute shootings. [6]

The value of Allan's estate when he died was £224,358, 3 shillings and 10 pence. [7]

Family

He was born to James Allan (1808-1880) and Eleanor Blair Gilkinson (1822-1868), one of 8 children. He married Anne Smiley Clark in 1886. They had 2 children; Annie Clark (Nita) Allan and James Bryce Allan.

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References

  1. "Bryce Allan". 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. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002446/18810212/120/0039 via British Newspaper Archive.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Bryce Allan - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
  6. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000472/19050518/062/0003 via British Newspaper Archive.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/60558/images/40884_b206817-00014?pId=467507.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)