George Mackie (rugby union)

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George Mackie
Birth nameGeorge Yuill Mackie
Date of birth(1949-04-19)19 April 1949
Place of birth Aberdeen, Scotland
Date of death3 April 2020(2020-04-03) (aged 70)
Place of death Nazeing, England
Height1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight95.4 kg (210 lb; 15 st 0 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) No. 8
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Montrose ()
– Highland ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
North and Midlands ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1974 Scotland 'B' 1
1975-78 Scotland 4 (0)

George Yuill Mackie (19 April 1949 – 3 April 2020) was a Scotland international rugby union player. [1]

Contents

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He first joined an Aberdeen club called 'the Hairies'; before joining an established team Montrose. [2]

He then moved to Highland club in Inverness. He was the only player capped by Scotland while representing Highland for all his caps. Colin Baillie, who coached him at the club, stated: [3]

He was an extraordinary ball player, great with his hands and he could run all day. He was one of the fittest boys I worked with. He led by example and was always there. On the pitch he would do any task and off the field he was the same. He did what some might have regarded as mediocre jobs, working as a janitor or in a distillery and he never took defeat easily.

Provincial career

Mackie played for North and Midlands. [2]

International career

He played for Scotland 'B' against France 'B' in 1974. [3]

Mackie played for the Scotland national rugby union team between 1975 and 1978 and took part in the 1975 Scotland rugby union tour of New Zealand. [4]

Political career

Outside rugby Mackie was a local councillor for Nazeing in Essex, England. He ran for the Bumble's Green ward in Nazeing in 1987 as a Labour councillor. [5]

Farming career

He had a 500 acre farm in Nazeing inherited from his father. He sold Christmas trees when in season and logs the rest of the year. [3]

Family

His father, John Mackie, was a Labour MP who went into the House of Lords. [4] and who bought the farm in Essex while MP for Enfield East. [2] His uncle, George Mackie, Baron Mackie of Benshie, was Baron Mackie of Benshie, a Liberal Democrat peer. Another uncle was Sir Maitland Mackie. [2]

His wife Catherine was a journalist, a former political editor of the Glasgow Herald; and adviser to Alastair Darling in the Treasury. [6]

He had 2 sons, Robert and Hector. Robert is now in the Treasury, while Hector runs the farm. [5]

Death

Mackie was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died from the illness. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "George Yuill Mackie". ESPN scrum.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Obituary: George Mackie, farmer and former Scotland rugby international". www.scotsman.com.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "George Mackie". Scottish Rugby Union.
  4. 1 2 White, Michael (16 April 2020). "George Mackie obituary". The Guardian.
  5. 1 2 "Obituary: George Mackie, farmer and Scottish rugby internationalist". HeraldScotland.
  6. ↑ "George Mackie obituary". The Guardian. 16 April 2020.


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