Duncan Irvine
{{short description|Scotland international rugby union player}}
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| birth_name = Duncan Robertson Irvine
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1851|04|02}}
| birth_place = Blair Atholl, Scotland
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1914|03|17|1851|04|02}}
| death_place = Victoria Island, British Columbia, Canada
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| position = Forward
| repteam1 = Scotland
| repcaps1 = 3
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| provinceyears1 = 1876-77
| provinceyears2 = 1878
| province1 = East of Scotland District
| province2 = Blues Trial
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| amatteam1 = Edinburgh Academicals
| amatteam2 = Aberdeen Rangers
| amatteam3 = Edinburgh Academicals
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Duncan Irvine was a Scotland international rugby union player.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/scotland/rugby/player/446.html|title=Duncan Robertson Irvine|website=ESPN scrum}}Bath, p137
Rugby Union career
=Amateur career=
He played for Edinburgh Academicals; and Aberdeen Rangers. He was staying in Old Machar, Aberdeenshire in 1881 census.
=Provincial career=
He played for East of Scotland District in February 1876. In this match he was deemed an Edinburgh Academical player.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000060/18760228/032/0006|title=|via=British Newspaper Archive}}
He played for East of Scotland District against Edinburgh District in January 1887. His brother Bulldog Irvine played for Edinburgh; Duncan was deemed a Aberdeen Rangers player.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000269/18770115/017/0003|title=|via=British Newspaper Archive}}
He played for the Blues Trial side against Whites Trial in February 1878, again classed as an Edinburgh Accies player.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/18780218/176/0007|title=|via=British Newspaper Archive}}
=International career=
Academic career
Irvine joined the British Geological Survey on 1 May 1868. He worked in south-west Scotland:- the Mull of Galloway, Wigtown and Stranraer.{{Cite web|last=Guppy|first=Miss E.M.|date=2000|title=Biographical notes on Geological Survey staff{{!}}BGS Archives GSM1/718{{!}}TECHNICAL REPORT WO/00/04{{!}}British Geological Survey|url=http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524542/1/WO00004.pdf|access-date=2021-06-05|website=nora.nerc.ac.uk/}}
He resigned from the BGS on 10 July 1882.
He moved to Canada, where he continued to be a surveyor; noted as staying at 224 Beacon Hill in Victoria City, British Columbia, in 1898.{{Cite web|last=Assembly|first=British Columbia Legislative|title=LIST OF PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE IN THE VICTORIA CITY ELECTORAL DISTRICT. 30TH APRIL, 1898.|url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcsessional/items/1.0064118|access-date=2021-06-05|website=open.library.ubc.ca|language=en}}
Family
His parents were Alexander Robertson Irvine and Sophia Jane Stewart Robertson. He married Sally Green in Victoria, Canada in 1900. He was the older brother of Bulldog Irvine, who was also capped for Scotland, including the first ever rugby international.Bath, p4
He is buried in Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria, Canada.
References
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Sources
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- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 {{ISBN|1-905326-24-6}})
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Category:Scottish rugby union players
Category:Scotland international rugby union players
Category:Edinburgh Academicals rugby union players
Category:East of Scotland District players
Category:Rugby union players from Perth and Kinross
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