Thomas Begbie

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Thomas Begbie
Birth nameThomas Allan Begbie
Date of birth(1862-08-01)1 August 1862
Place of birthDirleton, Scotland
Date of death26 February 1896(1896-02-26) (aged 33)
Place of deathLondon, England
Rugby union career
Position(s) Full back
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
1880-81
1881
1881
1884		 Edinburgh Wanderers
Glasgow Academicals
Edinburgh Wanderers
Merchistonians		 ()
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
1880
1881		 Edinburgh District
East of Scotland District		 ()
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
1881 Scotland 2 (1 goal)

Thomas Begbie was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1]

Rugby Union career[]

Amateur career[]

He played for Edinburgh Wanderers.[2][3]

In 1881 he moved to play for Glasgow Academicals.[4]

That same year he went back to playing for Edinburgh Wanderers.[5]

In 1884 he was playing for Merchistonians.[6]

Provincial career[]

He played for Edinburgh District in the 1880 inter-city match against Glasgow District.[7] He scored a try and conversion in the match.

He played for East of Scotland District in the February 1881 match against West of Scotland District.[8]

International career[]

He was capped twice for Scotland in 1881.[9]

Business career[]

He became a merchant; and was named as such on his death in the probate calendar of 1896. His estate was valued at £7259, 0 shillings, and 5 pence.[10]

Family[]

His parents were Thomas Begbie (1816-1878) and Christina Stodart Aitchison (1824-1864). He had two brothers: George Begbie (1857-1888) and John Aitchison Begbie (1859-1907). He married Hetty; she re-married, after Thomas's death in 1896 in Hampstead, to George Theodore Born of London on 11 June 1898.[11]

John Aitchison Begbie also played for Edinburgh Wanderers.[12]

References[]

  1. ^ "Thomas Allan Begbie". ESPN scrum.
  2. ^ The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
  3. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000060/18801213/015/0003 – via British Newspaper Archive. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000434/18810223/079/0006 – via British Newspaper Archive. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002446/18811105/187/0037 – via British Newspaper Archive. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002446/18841108/219/0041 – via British Newspaper Archive. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  8. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002446/18810212/120/0039 – via British Newspaper Archive. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Thomas Begbie - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
  10. ^ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1904/images/31874_222875-00154?pId=1826458[bare URL]
  11. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000032/18980622/083/0004 – via British Newspaper Archive. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002446/18801106/212/0036 – via British Newspaper Archive. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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