Birth name | John Robert Stephen Innes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 16 September 1917 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Aberdeen, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 21 January 2012 94) | (aged||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Aberdeen, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | University of Aberdeen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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87th President of the Scottish Rugby Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 1973–1974 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Alfred Wilson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Charlie Drummond | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Donny Innes (16 September 1917 –21 January 2012) was a Scotland international rugby union player and a doctor who worked as a general practitioner (GP). [1]
Innes was born on 16 September 1917 in Aberdeen Scotland. His father was a physician and his mother a GP. [2]
While studying medicine at the University of Aberdeen,he played for the Aberdeen University rugby union side. His pre-war Scotland caps came with the university side. [3]
He played for Aberdeen GSFP. [4]
He was a notable rugby sevens player and led the Co-Optimists to victory in the Murrayfield Sevens tournament in 1939. [3] He played sevens with Aberdeen Nomads that same year.
He was capped for the combined North of Scotland District side in 1935 while only a teenager,playing against a touring New Zealand side. [3]
He was capped for the standalone North of Scotland District He scored a try against Midlands District in 1947. [5]
He made the Scotland Probables side in December 1947. [6]
He was capped 8 times for Scotland. [7] He was one of only 5 Scotland internationalists who played before and after the second World War. [3]
He also played in 5 services International matches during the war;and the Victory international against England at Twickenham in 1946. [4]
He refereed the Blues Trial match against Whites Trial in the 1951–52 season. [8]
He was on the committee of North and Midlands. He was the Scottish Rugby Union president from 1973–74. He became the Aberdeen GSFP president in 1991. [3]
He was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps as an officer. [4] He saw active service with the 155 and 156 Field Ambulance companies attached to the 52 Lowland Division. When the war finished he was at the rank of Major. [3]
He continued with the military after the war in the Territorial Army. [3]
Innes completed his medical training as a doctor in 1940. He completed his residency at Woodend and Foresterhill Hospitals. He became a GP after the war at a practice in Rubislaw Terrace. He became a medical officer for HM Prison Craiginches in 1949 until he retired. He was present at Scotland's last execution in 1963. [3]
Innes died in Aberdeen on 21 January 2012 at the age of 94. [9]
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