Hamish Scott (17 February 1924 – 12 March 2010) was a

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international

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footballer. He played at Flanker and Number Eight.

Rugby career

Amateur career

Born in

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, Scott was raised in

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and attended the

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, where he studied geology. Scott played for St Andrews University rugby club He briefly played for Blackheath in London before moving to Asia. He later completed his PhD in parasitology at

when he then played for Madras College F.P.

Provincial career

Scott played for

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. Whilst in Malaya he played for North Malaya at rugby.

International career

He was capped for once in 1950, playing in the Five Nations match against

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on 18 March 1950. Scotland won the match 13 - 11. He was capped at Number Eight.

Outside of rugby

He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War aboard HMS ''Scorpion'' and was involved in escorting duties for the Russian convoy ships in the Arctic Ocean. His navy career took him to the Pacific and he served in Australia. In 1949 he was the official photographer for a Himalayan expedition in Nepal which saw the first ascent of Paldor and the discovery of the Tilman Pass. The expedition included Norgay Tensing and was led by

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, He took up a post in Malaya with the colonial government as a Marine Biologist, and wrote a book on the fish off the Malaysian coast. He was to later move to Nigeria, then Canada; where he stayed in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. He died in 2010, at Scotland's St Andrews on a visit home to Fife.

References

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