| Birth name | Thomas Jameson Torrie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 13 April 1857 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 18 June 1913 (aged 56) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | St Andrews, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable relative(s) | Thomas Jameson Torrie, father | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Torrie (13 April 1857 – 18 June 1913) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
He played for Edinburgh Academicals.[1]
He played for East of Scotland District in February 1876.[1]
Torrie was selected for Edinburgh District. He played in the Inter-City match of December 1876 against Glasgow District; and for Edinburgh District against East of Scotland District in January 1877.
He was capped once for Scotland, against England in 1877.[2]
After rugby union, Torrie became a tea-planter in Assam, Ceylon. He was named as a tea-planter in John M. Crabbie's will, in the Morning Post of 4 March 1898.[3]
Torrie was born to parents Thomas Jameson Torrie, the advocate, geologist and botanist, and Catherine Paton Jameson. He had 3 siblings Janet, Robert and Lawrence. He married Jane Crabbie, daughter of John M. Crabbie of Duncow, the wine merchant and distiller.[3] By 1901 he was staying in London, but moved to Vancouver in Canada in 1907. His sister Janet married Dr. Claud Muirhead; their only child died in infancy; and Janet Torrie died in 1874 and Claud Muirhead died in 1910. This meant a competing claim for their estate between the surviving Torrie brothers - Lawrence had died in 1909 - and the Muirhead family. The judge Lord Skerrington ruled in favour of the Muirhead family.[4] Thomas Torrie died in St. Andrews in 1913, leaving an estate of £16,747 and 17 shillings and 7 pence.[5]