| Birth name | Thomas Brown White | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 1 March 1866 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Cumnock, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 5 July 1939 (aged 73) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Moffat, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Anita de St. Quentin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Physician | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thomas Brown White (1 March 1866 – 5 July 1939) was a Scotland international rugby union player and physician.[1]
He was schooled at Edinburgh Academy.[2]
He played for Edinburgh Academicals.[3]
He played for Edinburgh District against Glasgow District in the inter-city match of 1887.[3]
He played for East of Scotland District in their match against West of Scotland District in February 1888.[4]
He was capped three times for Scotland, in the period 1888 to 1889.[5]
He worked on the P & O Shipping Line.[2]
In the First World War he served with the Royal Navy.[2]
White went to Edinburgh University to study medicine. He graduated with a M. B. and C. M. in 1888. White became a surgeon, first at the County Hospital in Ayr, then started his own practice in Moffat as a G.P. in 1894. With the exception of the war years, the last 45 years of his life were spent in Moffat.[2][6]
White was a noted Freemason. He also like golf and curling.[2]
His father was Andrew White (1828–1879) and his mother was Janet Young (1831–1869). Andrew White was a solicitor and bank clerk in Cumnock. Tom was one of their seven children.
He married Isabelle Constance Megret (1869–1942) in Edinburgh in February 1901. They had one daughter, Anita Louise White, a figure skater who represented France at the 1928 Winter Olympics.[2]
White, who had otherwise been in good health, suddenly fell ill and died on 5 July 1939, aged 73.[7]