Rugby player
| Birth name | James William Dunlop | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1854-10-16)16 October 1854 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Coatbridge, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 20 November 1923(1923-11-20) (aged 69) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | St Boswells, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Cheltenham College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Colonel James Dunlop (1854-1923) was a Scotland international rugby football player.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Dunlop played for West of Scotland.
International career
He was capped once for Scotland on 8 March 1875.
Military career
Dunlop was in the Royal Horse Artillery, entering the army in 1875. He rose through the ranks:- Captain in 1884; Major in 1892; Lieutenant - Colonel in 1900; and finally Colonel in 1904. He took part in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1879–80; the Third Anglo-Burmese War in 1886–87; and the Second Boer War in 1901–02.
Family
Dunlop was unmarried.
He was half-brother to Colin Dunlop of Lockerbie House, Dumfriesshire. His father was Colin Robert Dunlop of Fullarton House, Lanarkshire. His mother, Ann Maxwell Black, was a daughter of James Black of Craigmaddie.
His ancestors included John Dunlop of Garnkirk, Cadder who was a burgess of Glasgow in 1631. Dunlop of Garnkirk's brother received a baronetcy, now extinct. Another ancestor was Colin Dunlop of Carmyle, who was Provost of Glasgow in 1770. Dunlop of Carmyle's grandson was Colin Dunlop of Tollcross, M.P. for Glasgow in 1835.
References
- "James William Dunlop". ESPN scrum.
- Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
- "Scotland v England". ESPN scrum.
- ^ "Register". Retrieved 17 March 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Register". Retrieved 17 March 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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