Edward Scott (sportsman)
Birth name | Edward Keith Scott | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 14 June 1918 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Truro, Cornwall, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 3 June 1995 | (aged 76)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Truro | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Clifton College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | Lincoln College, Oxford St Mary's Hospital Medical School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Edward Keith Scott (14 June 1918 – 3 June 1995) was an English sportsman who played first-class cricket and represented the England national rugby union team.
Early life
Keith Scott was born in Truro, Cornwall and attended Clifton College,[1] near to Clifton where his grandfather the politician Edward Scott had settled on returning to England from Australia to practise medicine. Scott's father, Frank Sholl Scott, practised medicine in Cornwall, just as Scott's grandfather had done. Thus it was that Edward Keith Scott followed in this tradition and after attending Clifton went on to Lincoln College, Oxford, to read medicine and then continued his training at St Mary's Hospital, London.
Rugby career
Scott played rugby at
Cricket career
Scott, a leg-break bowler, took 12 wickets at 37.00 in his nine first-class matches. He was in the Clifton College XI for 5 years from 1933 to 1937 and took 244 wickets, a record that still stands today. He played
References
- ^ "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p473: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948
- ^ The First One Hundred Years: The Story of Ruby Football in Cornwall. Salmon
- ^ "Statsguru / Player analysis / Edward Scott / Test matches". Scrum.com.
- ^ "Gloucestershire v Worcestershire 1937". CricketArchive.
- ^ "University Match 1938". CricketArchive.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Edward Scott". CricketArchive.