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 East of Scotland District ()
1881 Edinburgh District ()
International career
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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