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Bill Auld
Bill Auld OBE (25 April 1868 – 19 July 1945) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1] Rugby Union careerAmateur careerHe played rugby union for West of Scotland.[2] Provincial careerHe was capped by Glasgow District in the inter-city match of 1887.[3] He was capped by West of Scotland District in their match against East of Scotland District on 11 February 1888.[4] International careerAuld played twice for Scotland; in the 1889 Home Nations Championship match against Wales on 2 February 1889;[5] and in the 1890 Home Nations Championship match against Wales on 1 February 1890.[6] Military careerHe 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.[7] Business careerHe 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.[7] 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.[8] FamilyHis 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.[9] References
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