Rugby player
Birth name | John Gilbert Millican | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | (1951-08-21) 21 August 1951 (age 73) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Reston, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Berwickshire High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | University of Edinburgh Heriot-Watt University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jock Millican (born 21 August 1951) is a former Scotland international rugby union player. He is now a businessman.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
While at the University of Edinburgh from 1969 to 1973 he played rugby union for Edinburgh University.
He went on to play for Heriot's.
Leaving Edinburgh in 1973 Millican had a short 2+1⁄2-month spell at Moseley, but only appeared in one mid-week fixture.
He signed for Leicester Tigers in 1974.
He played for Northern in the 1980s.
Provincial career
He received his first cap for Edinburgh District in 1971, playing against South of Scotland District at Meadowbank Stadium.
He played for Scotland Possibles on 30 December 1972.
On moving to England, he played for Staffordshire.
He was then picked for the Anglo-Scots to play inter-district matches.
International career
Millican received 3 caps for Scotland, all in 1973.
Coaching career
He coached Northern in England in the late 1980s, but stood down due to business reasons.
Administrative career
He was a director of the Six Nations from 2008 to 2012; and a non-executive director of the Scottish Rugby Union from 2007 to 2013.
He became a chief executive of the Scottish Rugby Union in 2011.
He was a director of Heriots from 2015 to 2021.
Business career
He graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in chemical engineering, but then moved to Heriot-Watt University to study brewing.
Millican then moved into the Beer and Wine trade. He was a brewer with Bass in Burton-on-Trent in England. He was an Operations Director of Scottish Brewers, then a Logistics Director of Scottish Courage, before moving on to Waverley Vinters.
Since 2010 he has been a director of Equity Gap, a private investors group. The company sponsors Edinburgh Rugby.
References
- ^ "Business interview: Jock Millican, Linc Scotland | The Scotsman".
- "John Gilbert Millican". ESPN scrum.
- Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Book Publishing. 2003
- https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19911101/237/0019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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(help) - "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Jock Millican - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
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- "Jock Millican". The Business of Drinks.
- "Jock Millican | LinkedIn".
- "Rugby Sponsorship".
- 1951 births
- Living people
- Rugby union flankers
- Scotland international rugby union players
- Scottish rugby union players
- Edinburgh District (rugby union) players
- Heriot's Rugby Club players
- Edinburgh University RFC players
- Scotland Possibles players
- Scottish Exiles (rugby union) players
- Birmingham Moseley Rugby players
- Northern Football Club players
- Leicester Tigers players
- Staffordshire RFU players
- Rugby union players from the Scottish Borders
- People from Berwickshire
- Alumni of Heriot-Watt University
- People educated at Berwickshire High School
- Scottish sports executives and administrators
- Rugby union executives
- Scottish brewers
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- 20th-century Scottish businesspeople
- 21st-century Scottish businesspeople