Gregor Sharp (20 April 1934 – 27 November 2006) was a

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

international

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

player.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played for Stewart's College FP. He also played for the

Army An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...

. He played for

Aberdeenshire Aberdeenshire ( sco, Aiberdeenshire; gd, Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 Subdivisions of Scotland#council areas of Scotland, council areas of Scotland. It takes its name from the County of Aberdeen which has substantially differe ...

on his move to Aberdeen.

Provincial career

He played for Edinburgh District in the Scottish Inter-District Championship. He played for the

Blues Trial Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African- ...

side in

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...

. He played for

Scotland Possibles Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

the following season at the end of

International career

He was capped four times between 1960 and 1964 for

. He also played for the Scotland-Ireland team against England-Wales in 1959.

Coaching career

He coached both

and Gordonians, when his work took him to Aberdeen.

Tennis career

He played tennis for Edinburgh Waverley, and on moving to Aberdeenshire played for Stonehaven. He won the Scottish Cup with Edinburgh Waverley.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sharp, Gregor 1934 births 2006 deaths Scottish rugby union players Scotland international rugby union players Stewart's College FP players Army rugby union players Edinburgh District (rugby union) players Scotland Possibles players Blues Trial players Aberdeenshire RFC players Rugby union fly-halves