John Davidson (3 September 1851 – 19 September 1919) was a Scottish international rugby union player who played for

RIE College RFC Royal Indian Engineering College RFC was a nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Surrey-based rugby union club, who were attached to Royal Indian Engineering College from 1871 to 1903. Formation The estate of Coopers Hill in Surrey w ...

in Surrey, England. Born in Banchory in 1851, Davidson played as a Forward. Davidson played in two early rugby union international matches for

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against

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and 1874.

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1851 births 1919 deaths Alumni of the Royal Indian Engineering College RIE College RFC players Rugby union forwards Rugby union players from Aberdeenshire Scotland international rugby union players Scottish rugby union players {{Scotland-rugbyunion-bio-stub