Ronald Cumming Explained

Ronald Cumming
Birth Name:Ronald Stuart Cumming
Birth Date:4 April 1900
Birth Place:Aberlour, Scotland
Death Place:Rothes, Scotland
Ru Position:Prop
Amatyears1:-
Amatteam1:Aberdeen University
Repteam1:Scotland
Repyears1:1921
Repcaps1:2
Reppoints1:0
Province1:North of Scotland District
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Ronald Cumming (4 April 1900 – 17 November 1982) was a Scotland international rugby union player.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Cumming played for Aberdeen University.[1]

Provincial career

He played for North of Scotland District.[2]

International career

He played for Scotland twice in 1922.[3]

Business career

He followed into the family business in the whisky industry. He became Chairman of the Scottish Whisky Association in 1961.[4] He became Chairman of Distillers Company Ltd. in 1963.[5]

Family

His parents were John Fleetwood Cumming (1863-1933) and Beatrice Gordon Bryson Kynoch (1865-1906). John Fleetwood Cumming was a Moray councillor and owner of the Cardhu distillery near Knockando, which was founded by his grandfather in 1824. They had 2 sons Lewis Robertson Cumming (1892-1914), John Kynoch Cumming (1896-1927) and 1 daughter Elizabeth Cumming (1898-1989) as well as Ronald. His father remarried Isobel Field when Beatrice died, they had a daughter in 1909 that died in infancy. Lewis joined the Black Watch and died in the Great War; John was wounded and taken prisoner.[6]

Ronald married Mary Hendrie (1904-1990) in Wentworth, Ontario in Canada in 1925. They had 2 daughters Elizabeth Bryson Cumming (1926-2015) and Mary Stuart Cumming (1929-1990). Mary Hendrie received an O.B.E. in 1953.[5]

Notes and References

  1. The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
  2. Web site: Register . 30 August 2023 . subscription . British Newspaper Archive.
  3. Web site: Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Ronald Cumming - Test matches. ESPN scrum.
  4. Web site: Register . 30 August 2023 . subscription . British Newspaper Archive.
  5. Web site: Register . 30 August 2023 . subscription . British Newspaper Archive.
  6. Web site: Register . 30 August 2023 . subscription . British Newspaper Archive.