Date of birth | 4 August 1946 | ||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 6 February 2016 | (aged 69)||||||||||||||||
School | Shuttleworth College[1] | ||||||||||||||||
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Alastair Gourlay Biggar (4 August 1946 – 6 February 2016) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[2]
He was capped twelve times for his country,[2] between 1969 and 1972, including the Five Nations seasons of 1970, 1971 and 1972. In the 1972 game against Wales, he sustained a hamstring injury.[3] He also played for London Scottish. He toured New Zealand in 1971 with the British and Irish Lions.[4] He died on 6 February 2016 from cancer.[1]
Fellow London Scottish and Scotland player Mike Biggar is his cousin.