Ernest Still was a rugby union international who represented

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from 1873 to 1873.

Early life

Ernest Still was born on 14 July 1852 in Epsom, the fifth son of Robert Still of Sutton in Surrey. He attended

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and went on to study law at Brasenose College, Oxford from where he received his BA in 1874 and his MA in 1880.

Rugby union career

Still made his international debut on 3 March 1873 at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow in the

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match.

Career and later life

Ernest became a solicitor and later married Amy Gordon Churchill, the daughter of Charles Churchill. Their son, Francis Churchill Still, married Margaret Burdett Money-Coutts, daughter of

Francis Burdett Thomas Coutts-Nevill Francis Burdett Thomas Nevill Money-Coutts, 5th Baron Latymer (18 September 1852 – 8 June 1923) was a London solicitor, poet, librettist, and wealthy heir to the fortune of the Coutts banking family. He is now remembered chiefly as a patron ...

, 5th Lord Latymer and Edith Ellen Churchill, on 8 June 1907. He died on 14 December 1937.the peerage.com
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References

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