Christian Melville

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Christian Melville
Birth nameChristian Landale Melville
Date of birth(1913-12-09)9 December 1913
Place of birth Edinburgh, Scotland
Date of death23 April 1984(1984-04-23) (aged 69)
Place of death Dorset, England
Rugby union career
Position(s) Lock
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Black Watch ()
– Army ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1938 Scotland Probables ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1937 Scotland 3 (0)

Christian Melville (9 December 1913 – 23 April 1984) was a Scotland international rugby union player. [1]

Contents

Rugby union career

Amateur career

Melville played for the Black Watch and the Army. [2]

Provincial career

He was supposed to play for the Scotland Probables in the first trial match of season 1937-38. The match due on 18 December 1937 was called off due to frost, despite the contingency of straw being placed on The Greenyards pitch at Melrose. He did however turn out for the Scotland Probables side for the second and final trial match of that season, on 15 January 1938. [3]

International career

He was capped three times for Scotland, all in 1937. [4]

Military career

Melville was in the Black Watch where he was a Lieutenant Colonel. He was awarded the DSO in 1945. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Christian Landale Melville". Espnscrum.com. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  2. ↑ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
  3. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000577/19380117/026/0004 . Retrieved 30 October 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Christian Melville - Test matches". Espnscrum.com. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  5. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19450413/010/0002 . Retrieved 30 October 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
Sources
  1. Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany. Vision Sports Publishing, 2007. ISBN   1-905326-24-6.
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