David Kerr (rugby union)
Appearance
Birth name | David Simpson Kerr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 3 February 1899 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 6 March 1969 | (aged 70)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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74th President of the Scottish Rugby Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 1960–1961 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Ranald Cuthbertson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Robert Ledingham | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
David Kerr (3 February 1899 – 6 March 1969) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He became the 74th President of the Scottish Rugby Union.[1]
Rugby union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]Provincial career
[edit]He played for Edinburgh District in the 1923 inter-city match.[3]
International career
[edit]He received 10 caps for Scotland from 1923 to 1928.[4]
Administrative career
[edit]He was President of the Scottish Rugby Union for the period 1960 to 1961.[5]
Military career
[edit]In the First World War he joined the 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders as a 3rd Lieutenant. He went to France on 20 October 1918.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "David Simpson Kerr". Espnscrum.com. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003
- ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". News.google.com. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - David Kerr - Test matches". En.espn.co.uk.
- ^ "Scottish Rugby Record 2018/19" (PDF). S3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com. 16 August 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ "Ancestry". Ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 1 June 2022. (registration required)