Gurth Hoyer-Millar
| Birth name | Gurth Christian Hoyer-Millar | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 13 December 1929 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Chelsea, London, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 6 March 2014 (aged 84) | ||||||||||||||||
| School | Harrow | ||||||||||||||||
| University | Lincoln College, Oxford | ||||||||||||||||
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Gurth Christian Hoyer-Millar (13 December 1929 – 6 March 2014) [1] was a Scottish sportsman who played international rugby union for Scotland. He also played first-class cricket with the Oxford University Cricket Club.
Hoyer-Millar spent his early sporting years at
Oxford University and also kept wicket for the university in two first-class matches in 1952, against Kent and Warwickshire.[2]
He was capped just once for the Scotland national rugby union team. His only Test came against Ireland at Murrayfield in the 1953 Five Nations Championship.[3]
Though he was called to the bar by
DIY chain. He was chairman of Bonhams auctioneers from 1988 to 1996 and served as a non-executive director of the Hudson's Bay Company
.
In 1956 he was a Liberal candidate for Earl's Court ward in the
Kensington Metropolitan Borough Council elections.[4]
He stood as a
References
- ^ Gurth Hoyer Millar - obituary
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Gurth Hoyer Millar (2)". CricketArchive.
- ^ "Gurth Hoyer-Millar". ESPN Scrum.
- ^ Twentieth Century Local Election Results Volume 2
- Glasgow Herald, "Liberal Hopes High At Southend", 6 October 1964, p. 16
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