Bill Auld
{{Short description|Scotland international rugby union player}}
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| birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1945|07|19|1868|04|25|df=yes}}
| death_place = Bridge of Weir, Scotland
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| provinceyears2 = 1888
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| repyears1 = 1889-90
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Bill Auld OBE (25 April 1868 – 19 July 1945) was a Scotland international rugby union player.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/scotland/rugby/player/864.html|title=William Auld|website=ESPN scrum}}
Rugby Union career
=Amateur career=
=Provincial career=
He was capped by Glasgow District in the inter-city match of 1887.{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mvtfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_rEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4854,5861342|title=The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}}
He was capped by West of Scotland District in their match against East of Scotland District on 11 February 1888.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/18880213/263/0004|title=The Scotsman 13 February 1888|via=British Newspaper Archive}}
=International career=
Auld played twice for Scotland; in the 1889 Home Nations Championship match against Wales on 2 February 1889;{{Cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/scrum/rugby/match/18961.html|title=Scotland v Wales|website=ESPN scrum}} and in the 1890 Home Nations Championship match against Wales on 1 February 1890.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/scrum/rugby/match/18965.html|title=Wales v Scotland|website=ESPN scrum}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19450720&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|title=The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://digital.nls.uk/directories/browse/archive/85303708?mode=transcription|title = (111) - Towns > Glasgow > 1828-1912 - Post-Office annual Glasgow directory > 1901-1902 - Scottish Directories - National Library of Scotland}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19301010/110/0006|title=|via=British Newspaper Archive}}
References
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Category:Scottish rugby union players
Category:Scotland international rugby union players
Category:West of Scotland FC players
Category:Glasgow District (rugby union) players
Category:West of Scotland District (rugby union) players