Full name | Alexander Gordon Mitchell Watt | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 19 December 1916 | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 16 April 1982 | (aged 65)||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Orthopaedic surgeon | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Alexander Gordon Mitchell Watt (19 December 1916 — 16 April 1982) was a Scottish international rugby union player.[1]
Watt, the son of a doctor, attended Dundee High School and Edinburgh Academy, before following his father into medicine with studies at the University of Edinburgh, from which he graduated in 1940.[2]
An orthopaedic surgeon, Watt played rugby briefly after the war until his medical career took priority. He was an Edinburgh Academical forward and was capped six times for Scotland.[3]
Watt was also a Scottish champion in the sport of shooting.[2]