Oliver Grant (rugby union)

Oliver Grant

Birth name	Thomas Oliver Grant
Date of birth	(1933-09-05)5 September 1933
Date of death	June 2022(2022-06-00) (aged 88)
Rugby union career
Position(s) No. 8 Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) Hawick () Provincial / State sides Years Team Apps (Points) Scottish Border XV () - South of Scotland () - Provinces District () – Blues Trial () International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1960-64 Scotland 6

Thomas Oliver Grant (5 September 1933 – June 2022) was a Scotland international rugby union player.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Grant played for Hawick.

Provincial career

Grant played for the Scottish Border XV in their match against Royal Air Force Rugby Union in 1962.

He played for South of Scotland.

Grant played for Provinces District - the combined north–south side - in their match against Canada on 28 November 1962.

He played for Blues Trial in the 3rd and last trial match of the 1962-63 season; the Blues edging a 23–20 win over Whites Trial.

International career

Grant was capped for Scotland six times between 1960 and 1964.

Personal life and death

Oliver Grant died in June 2022, at the age of 88.

His late, younger brother Derrick Grant was also capped for Scotland.

References

Sources

• Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)