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Bill Auld
OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(25 April 1868 – 19 July 1945) was a Scotland international rugby union player.


Rugby Union career


Amateur career

He played rugby union for West of Scotland.


Provincial career

He was capped by Glasgow District in the inter-city match of 1887. He was capped by West of Scotland District in their match against East of Scotland District on 11 February 1888.


International career

Auld played twice for Scotland; in the
1889 Home Nations Championship The 1889 Home Nations Championship was the seventh series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Three matches were played between 2 February and 2 March. It was contested by Ireland, Scotland and Wales. England were excluded from the ...
match against Wales on 2 February 1889; and in the
1890 Home Nations Championship The 1890 Home Nations Championship was the eighth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 1 February and 15 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Table Results ...
match against Wales on 1 February 1890.


Military career

He served in the First World War in the Labour Corps and was given an O.B.E. in 1919. He was active in the Territorial Army.


Business career

He became a stockbroker and was well known in the Glasgow Stock Exchange. He became its chairman in 1931-32. He was a senior partner in the firm Auld and MacEwan. On his death the National Probate Calendar lists Auld's address as the business address of Auld and McEwan as 24 St. Vincent Place, Glasgow; not using his home address of The Grange, Bridge of Weir.


Family

His father was William Auld; and his mother was Isabella Black Dill. He married Winifred Alice Burton. They had one son William Connel Auld, born in 1902; and two daughters. His son William Connel Auld married Barbara Keelan, the daughter of D.H. Keelan of India State Railways, on the 26 November 1930 in Calcutta.


References

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