Bruce Thomson (rugby union)
Birth name | Bruce Ewan Thomson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 19 November 1930 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Assam, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bruce Thomson (born 19 November 1930) is a former Scotland international rugby union player. Thomson played as a Prop.[1] He is a noted bagpiper.[2]
Rugby union career
Amateur career
Thomson played rugby for Oxford University.[3]
He later played rugby for London Scottish.[2]
International career
Outside of rugby
Medical career
Thomson became a doctor. He became a GP in Horsham, Sussex.[5]
He retired to Crieff in Perthshire.[6]
Bagpipes
Thomson learned the bagpipes at Aberdeen Grammar School.[6]
After school he joined the army where he was taught by Pipe Major Donald McLeod. He has composed more than 450 bagpipe tunes and has performed for the Queen.[2]
He has also been influenced by Seumas MacNeill, Pipe Major Brian McRae and the members of The Royal Scottish Pipers Society.[6]
He has now published several books of his bagpipe tunes.[7]
References
- ↑ "Bruce Ewan Thomson".
- 1 2 3 MD, Eric Anderson,. "Thomson's Tunes: a Scottish Retired Doctor Brings Fresh Air to the Bagpipes".
- ↑ The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
- ↑ http://en.espn.co.uk/statsguru/rugby/player/5637.html?class=1;template=results;type=player;view=match
- ↑ MD, Eric Anderson,. "Thomson's Tunes: a Scottish Retired Doctor Brings Fresh Air to the Bagpipes".
- 1 2 3 "Dr Bruce Thomson - Autobiography".
- ↑ "Bruce Thomson : Pipetunes".
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