but not to Australia. He went to Buffalo, Wyoming, where he and Alex Laing set up a successful sheep farming ranch. He did make return trips to Scotland, residing for a while in Edinburgh where his daughter Ellen Joanna lived, but returning to the USA in 1914. He later returned to Scotland and died at the Lauderdale Temperance Hotel in Lauder on 16 April 1944. References 1862 births 1944 deaths British & Irish Lions rugby union players from Scotland Hawick RFC players Roxburgh County RFU players Rugby union centres Rugby union players from Hawick Scottish Districts referees Scottish rugby union players Scottish rugby union referees