Alfred Methuen
Birth name | Alfred Methuen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 15 February 1868 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Newhaven, Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 5 March 1949 | (aged 81)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Seaview, Isle of Wight, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alfred Methuen (15 February 1868 – 5 March 1949) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1]
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
He played for Cambridge University and then London Scottish.
Provincial career
He played for East of Scotland District against West of Scotland District in their match of 26 January 1889.[2] He was still classed a Cambridge University player for the match.
International career
He played twice for Scotland; both times in 1889.[3]
Administrative career
He was elected President of London Scottish in 1931.[4]
Family
His father was James Methuen (1830-1873); his mother Murdina Bell (1841-1908). He was one of their five children.
He married Eleanor Hoey Forde (1867 - 1937) in Kingston, Surrey in April 1891. They had four children. One of his sons Lionel Harry Methuen joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in the First World War, won the Military Cross, and was awarded an O.B.E. in 1919.
References
- ^ "Alfred Methuen". ESPN scrum.
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001965/18890126/084/0005 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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(help) - ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Alfred Methuen - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000711/19310511/256/0009 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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