Robert Maitland (rugby union)

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Robert Maitland
Birth nameRobert James Peebles Maitland
Date of birth(1862-01-07)7 January 1862
Place of birth Alloa, Scotland
Date of death1918 (aged 55–56)
Place of death Clifton, New Jersey, United States
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
- Edinburgh Institution F.P. ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1881
1881		 East of Scotland District
Edinburgh District 		()
National team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1881-85 Scotland 5 (0)

Robert Maitland was a Scotland international rugby union player. [1] [2]

Contents

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He also played for Edinburgh Institution F.P. [1] [3]

Provincial career

He played for East of Scotland District against West of Scotland District on 5 February 1881. [4]

He played for Edinburgh District in their inter-city match against Glasgow District on 3 December 1881. [5]

International career

He was capped five times for Scotland between 1881 and 1885. [1] [6]

Family

He was born to Charles Maitland (1819-1898) and Mary Small Gardyne Maitland (1827-1881). Charles and Mary had 9 children; 6 boys and 3 girls. One of the boys, Robert's brother, was Gardyne Maitland who was also capped for Scotland. [1]

Robert emigrated to the United States in 1892.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Bath, p137
  2. ↑ "Robert James Peebles Maitland". ESPN scrum.
  3. ↑ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
  4. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 16 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  6. ↑ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Robert Maitland - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
Sources
  1. Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN   1-905326-24-6)


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