Thomas Begbie
{{Short description|Scotland international rugby union player}}
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| birth_name = Thomas Allan Begbie
| birth_date = {{birth date|1862|08|01|df=y}}
| birth_place = Dirleton, Scotland
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1896|02|26|1862|08|01|df=yes}}
| death_place = London, England
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| ru_position = Full back
| amatyears1 = 1880-81
| amatyears2 = 1881
| amatyears3 = 1881
| amatyears4 = 1884
| amatteam1 = Edinburgh Wanderers
| amatteam2 = Glasgow Academicals
| amatteam3 = Edinburgh Wanderers
| amatteam4 = Merchistonians
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| provinceyears1 = 1880
| provinceyears2 = 1881
| province1 = Edinburgh District
| province2 = East of Scotland District
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| repyears1 = 1881
| repcaps1 = 2
| reppoints1 = (1 goal)
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Thomas Begbie (1862-1896) was a Scotland international rugby union player.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/scotland/rugby/player/536.html|title=Thomas Allan Begbie|website=ESPN scrum}} His regular playing position was Fullback.
Rugby Union career
=Amateur career=
Begbie played for Edinburgh Wanderers.The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000060/18801213/015/0003 |title=Register |access-date=June 4, 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}
In 1881 Begbie moved to play for Glasgow Academicals.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000434/18810223/079/0006 |title=Register |access-date=June 4, 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}
That same year Begbie went back to playing for Edinburgh Wanderers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002446/18811105/187/0037 |title=Register |access-date=June 4, 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}
In 1884 Begbie was playing for Merchistonians.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002446/18841108/219/0041 |title=Register |access-date=June 4, 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}
=Provincial career=
Begbie played for Edinburgh District in the 1880 inter-city match against Glasgow District.{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=N6BEAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4bUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6313,5920205|title=The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}} He scored a try and conversion in the match.
Begbie played for East of Scotland District in the February 1881 match against West of Scotland District.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002446/18810212/120/0039 |title=Register |access-date=June 4, 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}
=International career=
Business career
Begbie became a merchant; and was named as such on his death in the probate calendar of 1896. His estate was valued at £7259, 0 shillings, and 5 pence.{{cite web| url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1904/images/31874_222875-00154?pId=1826458 |title=Register |website=www.ancestry.co.uk |access-date=2023-09-13 |url-access=subscription}}
Family
Begbie's parents were Thomas Begbie (1816-1878) and Christina Stodart Aitchison (1824-1864). He had two brothers: George Begbie (1857-1888) and John Aitchison Begbie (1859-1907). He married Hetty; she re-married, after Thomas's death in 1896 in Hampstead, to George Theodore Born of London on 11 June 1898.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000032/18980622/083/0004 |title=Register |access-date=June 4, 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}
John Aitchison Begbie also played for Edinburgh Wanderers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002446/18801106/212/0036 |title=Register |access-date=June 4, 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}
References
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Category:East of Scotland District players
Category:Edinburgh District (rugby union) players
Category:Edinburgh Wanderers players
Category:Glasgow Academicals rugby union players
Category:Merchistonian FC players
Category:Rugby union players from East Lothian
Category:Scotland international rugby union players