Birth name | Robert Gordon MacMillan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 3 April 1865 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 3 April 1936 71) | (aged||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Cirencester, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Merchiston Castle School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | Edinburgh University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Insurance underwriter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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27th President of the Scottish Rugby Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 1900–1901 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Ian MacIntyre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | George Neilson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert "Judy" Gordon MacMillan (3 April 1865 –3 April 1936) was a Scottish international rugby union player. [1]
MacMillan played club rugby for Edinburgh University,West of Scotland [2] and London Scottish. [3]
MacMillan was capped by Glasgow District to play in the inter-city on 3 December 1887. [4]
He was selected for Middlesex to play against Yorkshire in the 1893 English County Championship. Five Scots were selected for Middlesex:Gregor MacGregor,George Campbell,William Wotherspoon,MacMillan and Frederick Goodhue,all with London Scottish who played in the county. He played in that match,but Yorkshire won and then secured the championship. [5]
On 22 December 1894 he played for the Provinces District against the Cities District side. [6]
MacMillan played international rugby for Scotland for over 11 seasons,and in 1891 he represented the British Isles team on their South Africa. [7]
MacMillan was made vice-president in 1899 when he was still with London Scottish. [8]
He became the 27th President of the Scottish Rugby Union. He served the 1900–1901 term in office. [9]
MacMillan was born in 1865,the eldest son of John Gordon MacMillan and Margaret Holmes.
MacMillan was an insurance underwriter for Lloyds. [10] He was an underwriter from 1890 to 1923. In 1924 he became a non-underwriting member. [11]
He played cricket while at Merchiston Castle School. [12] He also liked rowing and golf. [13]
MacMillan owned Somerford House - an old vicarage,which he bought in 1922,rebuilt and added stables - in Somerford Keynes near Cirencester. He also had a house in Chelsea and other lands. He was killed when out on a fox hunt in 1936 with the Vale of White Horse Hounds in Cirencester Park. These were owned by Earl Bathurst;MacMillan had hunted with Bathurst for years. He was killed on his 71st birthday - the hunt was organised to celebrate his birthday - when his horse refused to jump a stone wall and he was thrown from the horse,breaking his neck. The hounds were in full cry after the first fox of the day. [14]
The gross value of MacMillan's estate was estimated at £352,304,17 shillings and 7d. For the most part MacMillan's estate went to his wife;most of the rest to other family,he had no children;but some of the bequests on his death went to his servants depending on their length of service. [15]
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