Alfred Methuen (15 February 1868 – 5 March 1949) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1]
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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Rugby Union career
editAmateur career
editHe played for Cambridge University and then London Scottish.
Provincial career
editHe 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
editHe played twice for Scotland; both times in 1889.[3]
Administrative career
editHe was elected President of London Scottish in 1931.[4]
Family
editHis 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
edit- ^ "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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