Graham Findlay
Birth nameDavid Graham Findlay
Date of birth(1864-11-10)10 November 1864
Place of birthGlasgow, Scotland
Date of death5 December 1924(1924-12-05) (aged 60)
Place of deathGlasgow, Scotland
SchoolKelvinside Academy
Notable relative(s)Crawford Findlay, brother
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
- West of Scotland ()
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
1886 Glasgow District ()
Refereeing career
Years Competition Apps
1894-
1896		 Scottish Districts
Home Nations
Scottish Unofficial Championship
23rd President of the Scottish Rugby Union
In office
1896–1897
Preceded byBill Maclagan
Succeeded byRobert Rainie

Graham Findlay (10 November 1864 – 5 December 1924) was a Scottish rugby union player. He later became an international referee and was the 23rd President of the Scottish Rugby Union.[1]

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Findlay played for West of Scotland.[2] He was still playing for the club in 1888 when he turned out for West of Scotland against Hawick and Wilton.[2]

Provincial career

Findlay played for Glasgow District in their match against North of Scotland District on 2 January 1886.[2]

Referee career

He refereed the inter-city match between Glasgow District and Edinburgh District in December 1894.[3]

He refereed the Yorkshire versus Lancashire county match on 23 November 1895.[4]

Findlay refereed the international matches between England and Wales on 4 January 1896;[5] and England and Ireland on 1 February 1896.[6][7]

He also refereed in the Scottish Unofficial Championship.[8]

Administrative career

Findlay was the Honorary Secretary at West of Scotland in 1893 and remained so for the rest of his life.[9][10]

He was Vice-President of the Scottish Rugby Union in 1896. He organised a charity rugby union versus association football match when his selected side of Rugby Rovers met Queen's Park. The charity was the Langside Dorcas society.[11]

Findlay became the 23rd President of the Scottish Rugby Union. He served the 1896–97 term in office.[12]

Cricket career

Findlay played cricket for the West of Scotland Cricket Club.[13] He also helped the Earl of Eglington XI run his invitational matches at Eglinton Castle, and he played as a wicket keeper for the Eglinton Castle Cricket Club side throughout the 1890s.[14]

Outside of rugby and cricket

Findlay was a wine and spirit broker.[15]

He died of pnemonia at the age of 60.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "D.Graham Findlay". ESPN scrum.
  2. 1 2 3 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000162/18860104/057/0004 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  4. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/18951129/007/0001 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ "England v Wales". ESPN scrum.
  6. ↑ "England v Ireland". ESPN scrum.
  7. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/18960203/019/0002 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/19011021/023/0003 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/18930106/010/0001 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. 1 2 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000986/19241208/002/0001 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000060/18960427/025/0009 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ↑ "Scottish Rugby record" (PDF). s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  13. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002711/19210507/070/0004 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. ↑ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000452/19241210/296/0010 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. ↑ "Ancestry - Sign In". www.ancestry.co.uk.
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