| Birth name | Ronald Stuart Cumming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 4 April 1900 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Aberlour, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 17 November 1982 (aged 82) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Rothes, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ronald Cumming (4 April 1900 – 17 November 1982) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
Cumming played for Aberdeen University. [1]
He played for North of Scotland District. [2]
He followed into the family business in the whisky industry. He became Chairman of the Scottish Whisky Association in 1961. [4] He became Chairman of Distillers Company Ltd. in 1963. [5]
His parents were John Fleetwood Cumming (1863-1933) and Beatrice Gordon Bryson Kynoch (1865-1906). John Fleetwood Cumming was a Moray councillor and owner of the Cardhu distillery near Knockando, which was founded by his grandfather in 1824. They had 2 sons Lewis Robertson Cumming (1892-1914), John Kynoch Cumming (1896-1927) and 1 daughter Elizabeth Cumming (1898-1989) as well as Ronald. His father remarried Isobel Field when Beatrice died, they had a daughter in 1909 that died in infancy. Lewis joined the Black Watch and died in the Great War; John was wounded and taken prisoner. [6]
Ronald married Mary Hendrie (1904-1990) in Wentworth, Ontario in Canada in 1925. They had 2 daughters Elizabeth Bryson Cumming (1926-2015) and Mary Stuart Cumming (1929-1990). Mary Hendrie received an O.B.E. in 1953. [5]
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