Ian MacIntyre

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| name = Ian MacIntyre, WS

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1869|11|27|df=y}}

| birth_place = Greenock, Scotland

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1946|06|29|1869|11|27|df=yes}}

| death_place = Edinburgh, Scotland

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| position = Forward

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| youthclubs1 = Fettes College

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| amatteam1 = Edinburgh University

| amatteam2 = Edinburgh Wanderers

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| province1 = Edinburgh District

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| repteam1 = Scotland

| repyears1 = 1890–91

| repcaps1 = 6

| reppoints1 = 0

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| refereeyears1 = 1899

| refereecomps1 = Scottish Unofficial Championship

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| school = Fettes College

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| office = President of the Scottish Rugby Union

| term_start = 1899

| term_end = 1900

| predecessor = John Boswell

| successor = Robert MacMillan

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| order = 26th

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Ian MacIntyre, WS (27 November 1869 – 29 June 1946) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He became the 26th President of the Scottish Rugby Union. For a period he was also a Unionist Party MP for Edinburgh West.{{Rayment-hc|E|1|date=April 2015}} He was also a Writer to the Signet.{{Cite web | url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p50441.htm | title=Person Page}}

Rugby Union career

=Amateur career=

MacIntyre started his rugby union at his Fettes College school.{{Cite web | url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19460701/117/0005 |title = }} When he started studying law at the university, he then played for Edinburgh University.{{Cite web | url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19460701/117/0005 |title = }} After university, MacIntyre played for Edinburgh Wanderers.{{Cite web | url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19460701/117/0005 |title = }}

=Provincial career=

He was capped by Edinburgh District in the 1899 inter-city match. He was playing for Edinburgh Wanderers when he was called up.{{Cite web | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=h_1EAAAAIBAJ&pg=2328%2C2030658 |title = The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search}}

=International career=

MacIntyre was capped 6 times for Scotland between 1890 and 1891.{{Cite web | url=http://en.espn.co.uk/statsguru/rugby/player/915.html?class=1;template=results;type=player;view=match |title = Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Ian MacIntyre - Test matches}}

=Referee career=

He refereed in the Scottish Unofficial Championship.{{Cite web | url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002446/18991202/326/0049 |title = }}

=Administrative career=

MacIntyre became the 26th President of the Scottish Rugby Union. He served the 1899–1900 term in office.{{cite web |url=https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sru-files/files/SR_RR1819_digital.pdf |title=Scottish Rugby Record 2018/19 |date= |website=Scottish Rugby |access-date=22 March 2020 |archive-date=16 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116210013/https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sru-files/files/SR_RR1819_digital.pdf |url-status=dead }}

Law career

He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he obtained an M. A. and LLB. He was admitted as a Writer to the Signet in 1893.{{Cite web | url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19460701/117/0005 |title = }}

Macintyre's legal practice was concerned with financial and commercial undertakings.{{Cite web | url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19460701/117/0005 |title = }}

Political career

He was a member of Edinburgh Town Council from 1918 to 1920.{{Cite web | url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19460701/117/0005 |title = }}

He first contested the Edinburgh West seat in 1923, but was beaten by the Liberal incumbent Vivian Phillips by 2,232 votes. He gained the seat in 1924, pushing Phillipps into third place, and finishing just over one thousand votes ahead of the second-placed Labour candidate. He did not stand again in 1929, when Labour gained the seat.{{cite book|last1=Craig|first1=F. W. S.|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949|url=https://archive.org/details/britishparliamen0000crai|url-access=registration|date=1969|publisher=Political Reference Publications|location=Glasgow|page=[https://archive.org/details/britishparliamen0000crai/page/584 584]|isbn=9780900178016}}

Family

MacIntyre married in 1896 Ida van der Gucht. Their children, including two sons and four daughters, were:

Duncan MacIntyre (1902–1930){{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Births |date=2 January 1903 |page=1 |issue=36967}}
Marjorie Linklater (1909–1997), wife of Eric Linklater, was a fervent Scottish Nationalist and campaigned for Winnie Ewing, the arts and the environment.{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/marjorie-linklater-5560252.html|title = Marjorie Linklater|website = Independent.co.uk|date = 3 July 1997}} MacIntyre's grandson is the journalist Magnus Linklater.
Alastair Macintyre (1913–1979)
Alison Bonfield

In 1932, MacIntyre was arrested and charged by Kenyan officials, along with his daughter Mrs Bonfield, on a charge of trying to kidnap two of his grandchildren. The charges were dropped at the Supreme Court of Kenya.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000452/19320819/053/0005 |title= |newspaper= |location= |page= |issue= |date= |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}{{Cite web | url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000452/19320915/107/0009 |title = }}