Duncan Irvine

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Duncan Irvine
Birth nameDuncan Robertson Irvine
Date of birth(1851-04-02)2 April 1851
Place of birth Blair Atholl, Scotland
Date of death17 March 1914(1914-03-17) (aged 62)
Place of deathVictoria Island, British Columbia, Canada
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
- Edinburgh Academicals
Aberdeen Rangers
Edinburgh Academicals 		()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1876-77
1878		 East of Scotland District
Blues Trial 		()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1878-79 Scotland 3 0

Duncan Irvine was a Scotland international rugby union player. [1] [2]

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Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played for Edinburgh Academicals; and Aberdeen Rangers. [2] He was staying in Old Machar, Aberdeenshire in 1881 census.

Provincial career

He played for East of Scotland District in February 1876. In this match he was deemed an Edinburgh Academical player. [3]

He played for East of Scotland District against Edinburgh District in January 1887. His brother Bulldog Irvine played for Edinburgh; Duncan was deemed a Aberdeen Rangers player. [4]

He played for the Blues Trial side against Whites Trial in February 1878, again classed as an Edinburgh Accies player. [5]

International career

He was capped three times for Scotland between 1878 and 1879. [2] [6]

Academic career

Irvine joined the British Geological Survey on 1 May 1868. He worked in south-west Scotland:- the Mull of Galloway, Wigtown and Stranraer. [7]

He resigned from the BGS on 10 July 1882. [7]

He moved to Canada, where he continued to be a surveyor; noted as staying at 224 Beacon Hill in Victoria City, British Columbia, in 1898. [8]

Family

His parents were Alexander Robertson Irvine and Sophia Jane Stewart Robertson. He married Sally Green in Victoria, Canada in 1900. He was the older brother of Bulldog Irvine, who was also capped for Scotland, [2] including the first ever rugby international. [9]

He is buried in Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria, Canada.

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References

  1. ↑ "Duncan Robertson Irvine". ESPN scrum.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Bath, p137
  3. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000060/18760228/032/0006 – via British Newspaper Archive.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000269/18770115/017/0003 – via British Newspaper Archive.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/18780218/176/0007 – via British Newspaper Archive.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Duncan Irvine - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
  7. 1 2 Guppy, Miss E.M. (2000). "Biographical notes on Geological Survey staff|BGS Archives GSM1/718|TECHNICAL REPORT WO/00/04|British Geological Survey" (PDF). nora.nerc.ac.uk/. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  8. ↑ Assembly, British Columbia Legislative. "LIST OF PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE IN THE VICTORIA CITY ELECTORAL DISTRICT. 30TH APRIL, 1898". open.library.ubc.ca. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  9. ↑ Bath, p4

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