Full name | Alexander Gordon Mitchell Watt | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1916-12-19)19 December 1916 | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 16 April 1982(1982-04-16) (aged 65) | ||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Orthopaedic surgeon | ||||||||||||||||
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Alexander Gordon Mitchell Watt (19 December 1916 — 16 April 1982) was a Scottish international rugby union player.
Watt, the son of a doctor, attended Dundee High School and Edinburgh Academy, before following his father into medicine with studies at the University of Edinburgh, from which he graduated in 1940.
An orthopaedic surgeon, Watt played rugby briefly after the war until his medical career took priority. He was an Edinburgh Academical forward and was capped six times for Scotland.
Watt was also a Scottish champion in the sport of shooting.
See also
References
- "Scotland's Two Changes". Liverpool Daily Post. 5 March 1946.
- ^ "Obituary". British Medical Journal. 284: 1778. 12 June 1982.
- "They Wear The Thistle". Daily Record. 1 February 1947.
External links
- Gordon Watt at ESPNscrum