Robert Lindsay-Watson
{{Short description|Scottish sportsman (1886–1956)}}
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| nationality = British (Scottish)
| sport = Athletics
| event = Hammer throw
| club = University of Cambridge AC
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| birth_place = Hawick, Scotland
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Robert Lindsay-Watson (4 October 1886 – 26 January 1956) was a Scotland international rugby union player and an Olympic athlete.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/scotland/rugby/player/2042.html|title=Robert Hamilton Lindsay-Watson|website=ESPN scrum}}{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/69252 |title=Robert Lindsay-Watson |work=Olympedia |access-date=15 March 2021}}
Athletics career
He was schooled at Glenalmond College Perth, Trinity College, Cambridge and St. Mary's School, Melrose. The Southern Reporter of 23 July 1908 said of Lindsay-Watson:{{Cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000469/19080723/016/0003 |title=Register |access-date=28 August 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}} "Robert Lindsay Watson might said to be St. Mary's representative in the Olympic Games in London, as he is one of the team of Scottish Athletes."
Lindsay-Watson represented Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London,{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000648/19080612/187/0008 |title=Olympic Games, Britain's team of athletes |work=Liverpool Daily Post |date=12 June 1908 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=11 April 2025}}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001055/19080612/073/0003 |title=The Olympic Games, British Representatives |work=The Sportsman |date=12 June 1908 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=11 April 2025}} where he competed in the men's hammer throw event.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/li/robert-lindsay-watson-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418042208/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/li/robert-lindsay-watson-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Robert Lindsay-Watson Olympic Results |access-date=20 January 2018}} Prior to the Games he finished third behind Simon Gillis in the hammer throw event at the 1908 AAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000668/19080706/152/0008 |title=AAA Championships |work=Birmingham Daily Gazette |date=6 July 1908 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=25 August 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=25 August 2024}}
Rugby Union career
He played for South of Scotland District in their match against North of Scotland District on 9 December 1911.{{Cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/19111208/058/0004 |title=Register |access-date=28 August 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}
He was capped by Scotland once, in 1909.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/statsguru/rugby/player/2042.html|title=Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Robert Lindsay-Watson - Test matches|website=ESPN scrum}}
He became President of the Hawick club when his playing days ended.{{Cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000469/19301016/116/0005 |title=Register |access-date=28 August 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}
Military career
He joined the 10th Gordon Highlanders and fought in the First World War. The Edinburgh Evening News reported a number of Borders Rugby players either killed or injured on 30 September 1915:{{Cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000452/19150930/072/0003 |title=Register |access-date=28 August 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}
LIEUT. R. H. LINDSAY WATSON.
Lieut. Robert H. Lindsay Watson, of the 10th Gordon Highlanders, son of T. Lindsay Watson, tweed manufacturer, Hawick, has been wounded action in Flanders. He is the well known Rugby footballer.
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Category:People educated at St Mary's School, Melrose
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Category:British male hammer throwers
Category:Olympic athletes for Great Britain
Category:Rugby union players from Hawick
Category:Scotland international rugby union players
Category:Scottish rugby union players
Category:South of Scotland District (rugby union) players