Tom White (rugby union)

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Tom White
Birth nameThomas Brown White
Date of birth(1866-03-01)1 March 1866
Place of birth Cumnock, Scotland
Date of death5 July 1939(1939-07-05) (aged 73)
Place of death Moffat, Scotland
Children Anita de St. Quentin
Occupation(s)Physician
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Edinburgh Academicals ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1887 Edinburgh District ()
1888 East of Scotland District ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1888-89 Scotland 3 (0)

Thomas Brown White (1 March 1866 – 5 July 1939) was a Scotland international rugby union player and physician. [1]

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Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He was schooled at Edinburgh Academy. [2]

He played for Edinburgh Academicals. [3]

Provincial career

He played for Edinburgh District against Glasgow District in the inter-city match of 1887. [3]

He played for East of Scotland District in their match against West of Scotland District in February 1888. [4]

International career

He was capped three times for Scotland, in the period 1888 to 1889. [5]

Business career

He worked on the P & O Shipping Line. [2]

Military career

In the First World War he served with the Royal Navy. [2]

Medical career

White went to Edinburgh University to study medicine. He graduated with a M. B. and C. M. in 1888. White became a surgeon, first at the County Hospital in Ayr, then started his own practice in Moffat as a G.P. in 1894. With the exception of the war years, the last 45 years of his life were spent in Moffat. [2] [6]

Other interests

White was a noted Freemason. He also like golf and curling. [2]

Family

His father was Andrew White (1828–1879) and his mother was Janet Young (1831–1869). Andrew White was a solicitor and bank clerk in Cumnock. Tom was one of their seven children.

He married Isabelle Constance Megret (1869–1942) in Edinburgh in February 1901. They had one daughter, Anita Louise White, a figure skater who represented France at the 1928 Winter Olympics. [2]

Death

White, who had otherwise been in good health, suddenly fell ill and died on 5 July 1939, aged 73. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Thomas Brown White". ESPN scrum.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Register" . Retrieved 16 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. 1 2 "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  4. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 16 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Tom White - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
  6. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 16 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ "Dr Thomas B. White, Moffat" . Dumfries and Galloway Standard. 8 July 1939. p. 8. Retrieved 21 May 2023.


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