Hugh Wilson | |
Full Name: | Hugh Gilmer Wilson |
Birth Date: | 11 April 1879 |
Birth Place: | Rashee, County Antrim, Ireland |
Death Place: | Larne, County Down, Northern Ireland |
Position: | Forward |
Repyears1: | 1905–10 |
Repcaps1: | 18 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Hugh Gilmer Wilson (11 April 1879 — 13 January 1941) was an Irish international rugby union player.
Hailing from Rashee, near Ballyclare in County Antrim, Wilson played for Malone RFC and was capped 18 times for Ireland as a forward from 1905 to 1910. He also played rugby with Glasgow University during his tertiary studies.[1]
Wilson enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was attached to the Royal Irish Rifles in World War I.[2]
A doctor, Wilson spent much of his medical career as a ship's surgeon and was also a recreational yachtsman, once surviving being stranded on the Irish Sea for fours days until finding his way to shore.[1]