| Born | Lachlan Patrick MacLachlan (1928-03-16)16 March 1928 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Died | 20 March 2025(2025-03-20) (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
Amateur career
A Rhodes Scholar educated at Exeter College, Oxford,23 MacLachlan played for Oxford University.4
He then moved to play for London Scottish.4
Provincial career
MacLachlan played provincially in Southern Rhodesia. He played for Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and Mashonaland.5
International career
MacLachlan was capped for Scotland four times in 1954.6
He was also capped by the Barbarians.5
Outside of rugby
Architect
MacLachlan studied architecture in Cape Town University. He became an Architect in Harare (then Salisbury) and in Blantyre, Malawi.
Teaching
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
MacLachlan lived in retirement in Canada.5 He died in Vancouver on 20 March 2025, at the age of 96.7
References
References
- "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.
- The Essential History of Rugby Union: Scotland. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths.
- "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.