RORY
LAWSON
Rory Gordon MacGregor Lawson captained Midlands Schools at under-16 and under-18 as well as leading Scottish Schools’ under-15 team. He played club rugby for Heriot’s – where he helped the side to lift the 2003 BT Cup – before signing as a professional with Edinburgh in 2003. He made his international sevens debut at the IRB
New Zealand tournament in February 2006, then flew home to help Edinburgh prepare for their Celtic League clash with Ulster before returning to sevens duty at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in March 2006. He led Scotland A to the final of the Barclays Churchill Cup tournament in Canada in June 2006 before moving to Gloucester for season 2006/07. Following in the footsteps of his father, Alan – also a
Scotland scrum half – he made his debut as a replacement against Australia in the 2006 Bank of Scotland Corporate international at Murrayfield in November 2006. They are the 15th father-and-son pair to play for Scotland. Rory’s Six Nations debut came against England on the opening day of the 2007 tournament and he made his World Cup debut later that year as a replacement in the win over Portugal. He returned to Six Nations duty in Scotland’s Calcutta
Cup success in March 2008 and made replacement appearances in the two Tests in Argentina that summer. He returned to Scotland A for the IRB Nations Cup success in Bucharest in June 2009 playing alongside his cousin, Jim Thompson – both are grandsons of the late world renowned rugby commentator Bill McLaren. Following a brief stint as acting Scotland captain during the 2010 summer tour to Argentina, he became Scotland’s 111th Test match captain and started a Murrayfield international for the first time when he led Scotland to victory over world champions South Africa in the EMC Autumn Test in November 2010; he continued to captain Scotland to a win against Samoa a week later and made it three out of three in the win over Ireland in the first EMC August Test in August 2011.
Club: Gloucester School: Dollar Academy
Born: 12 March 1981 in Dunfermline Height: 5ft 9in (1.76m) • Weight: 12st 12lb (82kg) Position: Scrum half
INTERNATIONAL RECORD: 28 caps 2006 – A (rep) 2007 – E (rep) W (rep) It (rep) I (rep) F SA (rep) RWC [Por (rep) NZ (rep)] 2008 – E (rep) Arg1 (rep) Arg2 (rep) NZ (rep) SA (rep) Can (rep) 2009 – A (rep) Arg (rep) 2010 – E (rep) Arg1 Arg2 SA Sam 2011 – F W I (rep) E It I2
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