Frank Fasson

{{short description|Scotland international rugby union player}}

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| birth_name = Francis Hamilton Fasson

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1877|09|21|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Peebles, Scotland

| death_date = {{Death date and age |1955|10|23|1877|09|21|df=y}}

| death_place = Jedburgh, Scotland

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| position = Half back

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| amatteam1 = Cambridge University

| amatteam2 = London Scottish

| amatteam3 = Edinburgh Wanderers

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Francis Hamilton (Frank) Fasson was a Scotland international rugby union player. He played at Half back.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/scotland/rugby/player/1413.html|title=Francis Hamilton Fasson|website=ESPN scrum|access-date=25 February 2020|archive-date=6 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130706101522/http://www.espnscrum.com/scotland/rugby/player/1413.html|url-status=live}}

Life

He was the son of Charles Hamilton Fasson MD, Superintendent of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, by his second wife, Margaret Sarah Robertson, who died when Frank was five.

He trained as a lawyer and in 1910 is listed as Francis H. Fasson WS living at 10 Murrayfield Drive in West Edinburgh.Edinburgh Post Office directory 1910

In the First World War he served as a Captain in the Scottish Horse regiment.

He died in Jedburgh on 23 October 1955.

Rugby Union career

=Amateur career=

He played for Cambridge University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000295/18981226/139/0006|title=|via=British Newspaper Archive}}

He then played for London Scottish and Edinburgh Wanderers.

=Provincial career=

Fasson played for the Anglo-Scots in 1898.

=International career=

He was capped 5 times for Scotland from 1900 to 1902.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/statsguru/rugby/player/1413.html|title=Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Frank Fasson - Test matches|website=ESPN scrum}}

Family

He married Lilias Clara Bruce and was father to Tony Fasson a hero of the Second World War.

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