Bill Auld

Bill Auld OBE (25 April 1868 – 19 July 1945) was a Scotland international rugby union player.

Bill Auld

Birth name	William Auld
Date of birth	(1868-04-25)25 April 1868
Place of birth	Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death	19 July 1945(1945-07-19) (aged 77)
Place of death	Bridge of Weir, Scotland
Rugby union career
Position(s) Forward Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) - West of Scotland () Provincial / State sides Years Team Apps (Points) 1887 Glasgow District () 1888 West of Scotland District () International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1889-90 Scotland 2 (0)

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played rugby union for West of Scotland.

Provincial career

He was capped by Glasgow District in the inter-city match of 1887.

He was capped by West of Scotland District in their match against East of Scotland District on 11 February 1888.

International career

Auld played twice for Scotland; in the 1889 Home Nations Championship match against Wales on 2 February 1889; and in the 1890 Home Nations Championship match against Wales on 1 February 1890.

Military career

He served in the First World War in the Labour Corps and was given an O.B.E. in 1919. He was active in the Territorial Army.

Business career

He became a stockbroker and was well known in the Glasgow Stock Exchange. He became its chairman in 1931-32. He was a senior partner in the firm Auld and MacEwan. On his death the National Probate Calendar lists Auld's address as the business address of Auld and McEwan as 24 St. Vincent Place, Glasgow; not using his home address of The Grange, Bridge of Weir.

Family

His father was William Auld; and his mother was Isabella Black Dill.

He married Winifred Alice Burton. They had one son William Connel Auld, born in 1902; and two daughters.

His son William Connel Auld married Barbara Keelan, the daughter of D.H. Keelan of India State Railways, on the 26 November 1930 in Calcutta.