Thomas Begbie | |
Birth Name: | Thomas Allan Begbie |
Birth Date: | 1 August 1862 |
Birth Place: | Dirleton, Scotland |
Death Place: | London, England |
Ru Position: | Full back |
Amatyears1: | 1880-81 |
Amatyears2: | 1881 |
Amatyears3: | 1881 |
Amatyears4: | 1884 |
Amatteam1: | Edinburgh Wanderers |
Amatteam2: | Glasgow Academicals |
Amatteam3: | Edinburgh Wanderers |
Amatteam4: | Merchistonians |
Provinceyears1: | 1880 |
Provinceyears2: | 1881 |
Province1: | Edinburgh District |
Province2: | East of Scotland District |
Repteam1: | Scotland |
Repyears1: | 1881 |
Repcaps1: | 2 |
Reppoints1: | (1 goal) |
Thomas Begbie (1862-1896) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1] His regular playing position was Fullback.
Begbie played for Edinburgh Wanderers.[2] [3]
In 1881 Begbie moved to play for Glasgow Academicals.[4] That same year Begbie went back to playing for Edinburgh Wanderers.[5]
In 1884 Begbie was playing for Merchistonians.[6]
Begbie played for Edinburgh District in the 1880 inter-city match against Glasgow District.[7] He scored a try and conversion in the match.
Begbie played for East of Scotland District in the February 1881 match against West of Scotland District.[8]
Begbie was capped twice for Scotland in 1881.[9]
Begbie became a merchant; and was named as such on his death in the probate calendar of 1896. His estate was valued at £7259, 0 shillings, and 5 pence.[10]
Begbie's parents were Thomas Begbie (1816-1878) and Christina Stodart Aitchison (1824-1864). He had two brothers: George Begbie (1857-1888) and John Aitchison Begbie (1859-1907). He married Hetty; she re-married, after Thomas's death in 1896 in Hampstead, to George Theodore Born of London on 11 June 1898.[11]
John Aitchison Begbie also played for Edinburgh Wanderers.[12]