William MacKintosh MacLeod

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William MacLeod
Birth nameWilliam MacKintosh MacLeod
Date of birth(1861-06-15)15 June 1861
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death30 June 1931(1931-06-30) (aged 70)
Place of death London, England
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Fettesian-Lorettonians ()
– Cambridge University ()
– Glasgow Academicals ()
– Edinburgh Wanderers ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1886 Edinburgh District ()
1887 East of Scotland District ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1886 Scotland 2 (0)

William MacKintosh MacLeod (15 June 1861, Glasgow  –30 June 1931, Kensington, London) was a Scotland international rugby union player. [3]

Contents

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He went to Fettes College in 1873. [4]

He played for Fettesian-Lorettonians. [4] He was the Secretary of the club in 1886. [5]

He went to Trinity College and played rugby union for Cambridge University. [4]

He came back to Edinburgh and studied at University of Edinburgh. [4]

He turned out for Glasgow Academicals in 1885. [6]

He then played for Edinburgh Wanderers. [7]

Provincial career

He played for Edinburgh District against Glasgow District in the inter-city match of 4 December 1886. [7]

That same season, on 29 January 1887, he played for East of Scotland District in their match against West of Scotland District. [8]

International career

William was a rugby union forward who played twice for Scotland in the 1886 Home Nations Championship. He was on the winning side on both occasions. [1]

Business career

He became the manager of a Fine Arts insurance company in Manchester. He also became the local chairman of the Royal Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Children there. [4]

He practised as a stockbroker. [9] He practised at Fielding, Son and Macleod; where he was a senior partner. [4]

Family

He was the third and youngest son of The Very Rev. Norman MacLeod (1812-1872) and Catherine Ann MacLeod (née MacKintosh) (1824-1903), and the seventh of their eight children. Norman Macleod was minister of the Barony Church in Glasgow. [10] One of his brothers was Sir John MacLeod MP. On 8 January 1902, he married Constance Helen Sellar (1859-1928). [2] His wife, known as Eppie, [11] predeceased him. She was the daughter of the Professor of Latin at Edinburgh University, William Young Sellar. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "William MacLeod, Scotland". BT Sport ESPN . Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  2. 1 2 "William MacKintosh MacLeod". macleodgenealogy.org. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  3. ↑ One source gives his middle name as Mackensie. [1] MacKintosh seems more likely, because (1) that name appears on a genealogical website, and (2) it was his mother's maiden name. [2] Another source, the Cambridge University register for Trinity College, gives his middle name as Macintosh.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Register" . Retrieved 18 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 18 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 18 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. 1 2 "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  8. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 18 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ↑ Orr, Brian J. (18 September 2015). Bones of Empire. Photographs by Maurice McIlwrick. Self-published ebook. p. 398. ISBN   9781291434828 . Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  10. ↑ "Register" . Retrieved 18 March 2023– via British Newspaper Archive.
  11. ↑ Sloan, John (2023). Andrew Lang: Writer, Folklorist, Democratic Intellect. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-286687-5.
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