Alastair Gourlay Biggar (4 August 1946 – 6 February 2016) was a

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Scrum.com He was capped twelve times for his country, between 1969 and 1972, including the Five Nations seasons of 1970, 1971 and 1972. In the 1972 game against , he sustained a

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injury. He also played for London Scottish. He toured New Zealand in 1971 with the

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.Alastair Biggar Lions profile
lionsrugby.com He died on 6 February 2016 from cancer. Fellow London Scottish and Scotland player

Mike Biggar Mike Biggar (born 20 November 1949) is a former Scotland international rugby union player. Rugby Union career Amateur career Biggar was educated at Sedbergh School in Cumbria, where he was Head of School, then went up to Queens' College, Cam ...

is his cousin.

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