Charles Stuart (rugby union)

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Charles Stuart
Birth nameCharles Douglas Stuart
Date of birth(1887-05-18)18 May 1887
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death15 January 1982(1982-01-15) (aged 94)
Place of death Glasgow, Scotland
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Drumchapel RFC ()
– Uddingston RFC ()
– Clydesdale ()
– London Scottish ()
– West of Scotland ()
– Rowans Engineers RFC ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Glasgow District ()
1911 Blues Trial ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1909-11 Scotland 7 (3)

Charles Douglas Stuart (18 May 1887 – 15 January 1982) was a Scotland international rugby union player. [1] He often added Junior to his name; to differentiate from his father who had a similar career path. His regular playing position was Forward.

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Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Stuart began his rugby union career at Drumchapel RFC. He was a sporting all rounder excelling in not only rugby union but also football and cricket. As a young man in the Drumchapel side he was picked out - along with T. Inglis, C. L. Vermont and C. H. Stewart. - as starring in a match at Thirdpart against Hillhead HSFP 2XV. [2] [3]

The football club Glasgow Rangers were interested in signing the young man. This did not please his rugby loving father who instead sorted a move to Uddingston RFC for the player. [4]

Stuart was later to move to Clydesdale and then London Scottish. [4]

Stuart also played for West of Scotland. [1]

Provincial career

Stuart played for Glasgow District in the inter-city match against Edinburgh District. [5]

Stuart played for the Blues Trial side against the Whites Trial side on 21 January 1911 while still with West of Scotland. [6]

International career

Stuart was capped seven times for Scotland between 1909 and 1911. [1] [7]

Cricket career

Stuart played cricket for Poloc. He was Poloc's first century maker and played cricket well into the 1920s. [4] [8] [9]

Engineering career

Stuart got a job as an Engineer with Rowans Engineering working in the oil industry. This was to curtail his international career. At the age of 23 he moved to Burma with Rowans. [4]

While at Rowans he organised a rugby side, Rowans Engineers RFC; run as an invitational side. The basis of the side were players from Uddingston, Clydesdale and West of Scotland. [10]

Stuart never forgot his first club Drumchapel - and for many years he took his invitational side back there; and the Drumchapel - Rowan Engineers match became the traditional preseason opening fixture for the Thirdpart side. [10]

Journalism career

Later in life Stuart followed in the footsteps of his father and became a sports journalist writing for the Glasgow Herald; concentrating on rugby union and cricket matches. [4]

Family

Stuart's father Charles Douglas Stuart Senior played for Royal HSFP; a forward of the famous Nat Watt's Lambs side. [11] Senior was also a journalist for the Glasgow Herald. [4] Like his son Charles junior he enjoyed rugby and cricket. He died in 1933 at the age of 73. [11]

Stuart's younger brother Ludovic Stuart was also capped for Scotland in the 1920s. [1]

Stuart Junior's 90th birthday lunch was attended by 8 of Scotland's union Presidents - 4 from the Scottish Rugby Union and 4 from the Scottish Cricket Union. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Bath, p137
  2. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 17 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 17 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  5. ↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  6. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 17 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ "Charles Douglas Stuart". ESPN scrum.
  8. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 17 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 17 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. 1 2 "Register" . Retrieved 17 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  11. 1 2 "Register" . Retrieved 17 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
Sources
  1. Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN   1-905326-24-6)
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