Ranald Cuthbertson

Cuthbertson went to Edinburgh Academy and graduated in 1916. He then played for Edinburgh Academicals.^[1]

Cuthberson was appointed Honorary Secretary of Edinburgh Academicals junior side in 1926,^[2] and took on the same role for the main team in 1932.^[3] He was also a director of the Infirmary Sevens in Edinburgh till 1934.^[4]

In 1936, Cuthertson was elected to the committee of the Scottish Rugby Union, replacing A. I. S. McPherson of Edinburgh Academicals.^[5] As a member of the committee, he travelled to Wales in 1939 with the Scotland international team for their match at Cardiff;,^[6] and to Dublin for their match against Ireland.^[7]

Cuthbertson acted as president of Edinburgh Academicals from 1948 to 1950.^[8]

He was on the board of the International Rugby Board in 1954,^[9] and in 1959 he became the 73rd President of the Scottish Rugby Union, a role he fulfilled for the standard term of one year.^[10]

After he left the Edinburgh Academy, Cuthbertson signed up to the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in 1917.^[11]

Cuthbertson played cricket for Edinburgh Academicals,^[12] and was also a noted angler.^[13]

Professionally, Cuthbertson was a lawyer, and a Writer to the Signet.^[14] He joined the firm Mackenzie, Innes and Logan before moving on to the board of Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society.^[15] He was a director of the Floors Stud Company of Kelso, the firm that the Duke of Roxburghe used to maintain his estate; Floors Castle was on the Duke's estate.^[16]