| 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 |
| Provinceyears1: | - |
Ronald Cumming (4 April 1900 – 17 November 1982) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
Cumming played for Aberdeen University.[1]
He played for North of Scotland District.[2]
He played for Scotland twice in 1922.[3]
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]
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]