Pat MacLachlan
| Born | Lachlan Patrick MacLachlan 16 March 1928 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Died | 20 March 2025 (aged 97) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Plumtree School, Zimbabwe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | Cape Town University Oxford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lachlan Patrick MacLachlan (16 March 1928 – 20 March 2025) was a Scottish international rugby union player. In his rugby career he played as a Scrum half.[1]
Rugby union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]A Rhodes Scholar educated at Exeter College, Oxford,[2][3] MacLachlan played for Oxford University.[4]
He then moved to play for London Scottish.[4]
Provincial career
[edit]MacLachlan played provincially in Southern Rhodesia. He played for Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and Mashonaland.[5]
International career
[edit]MacLachlan was capped for Scotland four times in 1954.[6]
He was also capped by the Barbarians.[5]
Outside of rugby
[edit]Architect
[edit]MacLachlan studied architecture in Cape Town University. He became an Architect in Harare (then Salisbury) and in Blantyre, Malawi.
Teaching
[edit]MacLachlan became a teacher in Canada at Shawnigan Lake School on Vancouver Island, Canada. He later became Headmaster at the school.[5]
He then ran an Independent Schools Service in Hong Kong.[5]
Later life and death
[edit]MacLachlan lived in retirement in Canada.[5] He died in Vancouver on 20 March 2025, at the age of 96.[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Lachlan Patrick MacLachlan".
- ↑ "Obituaries: Pat MacLachlan and Rory Watherston". Scottish Rugby. 14 May 2025. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
- ↑ "Rhodes Scholar Database". Rhodes Trust. Retrieved 16 May 2025.
- 1 2 The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Old Prunitian Database - Index M".
- ↑ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Pat MacLachlan - Test matches".
- ↑ "Remembering the life of Lachlan MacLachlan". vancouversunandprovince.remembering.ca. Retrieved 6 April 2025.
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