Pat MacLachlan

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Pat MacLachlan
Birth nameLachlan Patrick MacLachlan
Date of birth(1928-03-16)16 March 1928
Place of birth Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia
Date of death20 March 2025(2025-03-20) (aged 97)
Place of death Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
School Plumtree School, Zimbabwe
University Cape Town University
Oxford University
Rugby union career
Position(s) Scrum half
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Salisbury Sports Club ()
Oxford University ()
London Scottish ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Southern Rhodesia ()
Nyasaland ()
Mashonaland ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1954 Scotland 4 (0)
Barbarians

Lachlan Patrick MacLachlan (16 March 1928 – 20 March 2025) was a Scottish international rugby union player. In his rugby career he played as a Scrum half. [1]

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Rugby union career

Amateur career

MacLachlan played for Oxford University. [2]

He then moved to play for London Scottish. [2]

Provincial career

MacLachlan played provincially in Southern Rhodesia. He played for Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and Mashonaland. [3]

International career

MacLachlan was capped for Scotland four times in 1954. [4]

He was also capped by the Barbarians. [3]

Outside of rugby

Architect

MacLachlan studied architecture in Cape Town University. He became an Architect in Harare (then Salisbury) and in Blantyre, Malawi.

Teaching

MacLachlan became a teacher in Canada at Shawnigan Lake School on Vancouver Island, Canada. He later became Headmaster at the school. [3]

He then ran an Independent Schools Service in Hong Kong. [3]

Later life and death

MacLachlan lived in retirement in Canada. [3] He died in Vancouver on 20 March 2025, at the age of 96. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Lachlan Patrick MacLachlan".
  2. 1 2 The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Old Prunitian Database - Index M".
  4. ↑ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Pat MacLachlan - Test matches".
  5. ↑ "Remembering the life of Lachlan MacLachlan". vancouversunandprovince.remembering.ca. Retrieved 6 April 2025.


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