Sandy Gunn (rugby union)
Birth name | Alexander William Gunn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 16 November 1890 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Pontypool, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 1 April 1980 | (aged 89)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Stowlangtoft, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sandy Gunn (16 November 1890 – 1 April 1980) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1]
Rugby Union career[]
Amateur career[]
He played for Royal HSFP.[2]
On 7 April 1911 The Scottish Referee newspaper while noting that Hawick would probably be the favourites instead tipped the Royal HSFP side to win the Melrose Sevens in 1911 stating that if they pick their best side of G. A. McLaren, Sandy Gunn, J. Hume, A. Elder, A. C. Brown, W. A. Kennedy, and W. J. Sommerville, that they would take a lot of beating.[3] However Hawick did win the Melrose Sevens that year.
Gunn scored a respectable 11 tries for Royal in the 1910-11 season.[3]
Provincial career[]
He played for Edinburgh District against Glasgow District in the inter-city match of 2 December 1911 and in the inter-city match of 7 December 1912.[4]
He played for against on 6 January 1912.[5]
He played for against on 21 December 1912.[6]
International career[]
Gunn played in 5 tests for Scotland.[7]
He was picked instead at Centre for the match against South Africa.[8]
Administrative career[]
He was named as a committee member of Royal HSFP in 1913.[9]
Family[]
His parents were James Gunn (1851-1929) and Christina Bell Turner (1852-1914). They had 2 daughters: Christina Sinclair Gunn (1884-1969) and Catherine Jane Turner Gunn (1888-1959) and 2 sons: James Turner Gunn (1881-1968) and Sandy noted here.
James Gunn was from Caithness and Christina Bell Turner was from Argyll, but they moved to Wales in their thirties, for a few years before returning to Scotland. While James Turner Gunn and Christina Sinclair Gunn were both born in Scotland, Catherine Jane Turner Gunn and Sandy were born in Pontypool in Wales.
Sandy married Marjorie Ruth Clare Anderson (1896-1961) in St. Silas Episcopal Church in Glasgow on 9 January 1923.
They had a son Alasdair Turner Gray Gunn (1926-2014).
References[]
- ^ "Alexander William Gunn". ESPN scrum.
- ^ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
- ^ a b https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/19110407/064/0003 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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- 1890 births
- 1980 deaths
- Scottish rugby union players
- Scotland international rugby union players
- Whites Trial players
- Blues Trial players
- Royal HSFP players
- Edinburgh District (rugby union) players
- Rugby union players from Pontypool
- Scottish rugby union biography stubs