Full name | James Robert Thom | ||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 22 November 1910 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Kirkcaldy, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 13 December 1981 | (aged 71)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Morningside, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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James Robert Thom (22 November 1910 — 13 December 1981) was a Scottish international rugby union player.
Thom was born in Kirkcaldy and educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh.[1]
A prop, Thom was capped three times for Scotland in the 1933 Home Nations.[2]
Thom held a forestry degree from the University of Edinburgh. He worked as a conservator and held high ranking positions with the Forestry Commission.[3] His son, J. Stuart Thom, was the Conservative candidate for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles in the 1974 general election (February), losing to David Steel.[4]