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'''Cliff Wilton''' was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[rugby union]] player. He was the 94th President of the Scottish Rugby Union.<ref name="auto2">{{cite web|url=https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sru-files/files/SR_RR1819_digital.pdf |title=Scottish Rugby |publisher=s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com |date=2019 |accessdate=2020-04-09}}</ref>
'''Clifford William Wilton''' (15 March 1916 - 16 July 1987) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[rugby union]] player and businessman. He was the 94th President of the Scottish Rugby Union.<ref name="auto2">{{cite web|url=https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sru-files/files/SR_RR1819_digital.pdf |title=Scottish Rugby |publisher=s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com |date=2019 |accessdate=2020-04-09}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Grandson of Sir Thomas Wilton, founder of Renwick Wilton & Co., coal merchants and travel agents, Clifford William Wilton was born at [[Newcastle-on-Tyne]] and educated at [[Fettes College]], then [[Caius College, Cambridge]] ([[Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)]]|MA), and [[Gray's Inn]], from where he was [[call to the Bar|called to the Bar]] and thus qualified as a [[barrister]].<ref>County Cricket Club Heritage Archive: Players, Clifford Wilton, Association of Cricket Historians and Statisticians; URL= https://heritage.derbyshireccc.com/Archive/Players/1095/1095894/1095894.html</ref><ref>Leviathan, the Business Who's who- A Biographical Dictionary of Chairmen, Chief Executives and Managing Directors of British-registered Companies, ed. Ruth Dinning, Leviathan House, 1972, p. 398</ref>

==Business career==
Wilton had a successful business career, becoming executive chairman of Renwick Wilton & Dobson (Holdings) Ltd and associated companies, and chairman of the Western Fuel Company.<ref>Leviathan, the Business Who's who- A Biographical Dictionary of Chairmen, Chief Executives and Managing Directors of British-registered Companies, ed. Ruth Dinning, Leviathan House, 1972, p. 398</ref>


==Rugby Union career==
==Rugby Union career==


===Amateur career===
===Amateur career===
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Wilton played rugby for Fettes College,<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002692/19370319/108/0007|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> After Fettes he played for [[Fettesian-Lorettonian Club|Fettesian-Lorettonians]] in 1935.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000681/19351231/219/0014|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref>

Wilton went to Fettes College.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002692/19370319/108/0007|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> After Fettes he played for [[Fettesian-Lorettonian Club|Fettesian-Lorettonians]] in 1935.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000681/19351231/219/0014|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref>
then for Caius College at the University of Cambridge;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000513/19361130/112/0010|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> where he played for [[Cambridge R.U.F.C.|Cambridge University]].<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000337/19361208/177/0010|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000681/19361130/399/0019|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19361211/129/0011|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> While at Cambridge he was fined £5 for driving a sports car without insurance in October 1936.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000541/19361127/490/0021|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> He scored a try against [[Oxford University RFC|the University of Oxford]] in the 1936 match.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002784/19361210/129/0008|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref>

He then went to Cambridge University at Caius College;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000513/19361130/112/0010|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> where he played for [[Cambridge R.U.F.C.|Cambridge University]].<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000337/19361208/177/0010|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000681/19361130/399/0019|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19361211/129/0011|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> While at Cambridge University he was fined £5 for driving a sports car without insurance in October 1936.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000541/19361127/490/0021|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> He scored a try against [[Oxford University RFC|Oxford University]] in the 1936 match.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002784/19361210/129/0008|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref>


In 1937 he played for [[London Scottish F.C.|London Scottish]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19371129/357/0004|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19380228/428/0015|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> While based in Northumberland with the Territorial Army he also played for [[Northern Football Club|Northern]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002445/19371108/166/0009|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref>
In 1937 he played for [[London Scottish F.C.|London Scottish]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19371129/357/0004|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19380228/428/0015|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> While based in Northumberland with the Territorial Army he also played for [[Northern Football Club|Northern]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002445/19371108/166/0009|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref>
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===Provincial career===
===Provincial career===

He made the [[Scotland Possibles]] side in 1937.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002784/19370107/066/0006|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref>
He made the [[Scotland Possibles]] side in 1937.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002784/19370107/066/0006|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref>


===Administrative career===
===Administrative career===

He was Honorary Secretary of the Four Nations tour committee. He had to make a statement confirming that the tour to South Africa would be going ahead despite condemnation of the apartheid regime in 1961: 'We have great respect for the opinions of these different bodies, but so far as we are concerned our plans, which were made some time ago, are going ahead.'<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002134/19611223/146/0007|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref>
He was Honorary Secretary of the Four Nations tour committee. He had to make a statement confirming that the tour to South Africa would be going ahead despite condemnation of the apartheid regime in 1961: 'We have great respect for the opinions of these different bodies, but so far as we are concerned our plans, which were made some time ago, are going ahead.'<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002134/19611223/146/0007|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref>


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==Military career==
==Military career==
He was a 2nd Lieutenant in the 72nd (Northumberland) Field Brigade of the Territorial Army in 1937.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19370306/448/0009|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref> He later served with the Royal Artillery.<ref name="auto3"/> In 1942-43 he was in an Italian Prisoner of War camp.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000650/19421016/116/0004|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002312/19430427/023/0003|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref>


==Personal life==
He was a 2nd Lieutenant in the 72nd (Northumberland) Field Brigade of the Territorial Army in 1937.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19370306/448/0009|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref>
In 1939, Wilton married Alice Linda Travers, a tap dancer and former actress, sister to [[Bill Travers]] and [[Linden Travers]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Powell |first=Lucy |date=9 June 2008 |title=Penelope Wilton, the winner of discontent |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/penelope-wilton-the-winner-of-discontent-pxdpk97ftfh |work=The Times |location=London, UK |access-date=30 November 2018 |url-access=limited}}</ref><ref name=csmfms>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/csm/2015/04/14/acting-alumni-win-big-at-olivier-awards|title=Acting Alumni Win Big at Olivier Awards|publisher=Csm.arts.ac.uk|access-date=12 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB |id=69552 |title=Massey, Daniel Raymond |first=Michael |last=Billington |date=8 January 2015}}</ref> They had three daughters, the second of whom being the actress [[Penelope Wilton]]. He lived at 86, [[Lexham Gardens]], [[Kensington]], London W8, and was a member of the [[Constitutional Club]], the [[City Livery Club]], and the British Sportsman's Club.<ref>Leviathan, the Business Who's who- A Biographical Dictionary of Chairmen, Chief Executives and Managing Directors of British-registered Companies, ed. Ruth Dinning, Leviathan House, 1972, p. 398</ref> He died 16 July 1987.<ref>County Cricket Club Heritage Archive: Players, Clifford Wilton, Association of Cricket Historians and Statisticians; URL= https://heritage.derbyshireccc.com/Archive/Players/1095/1095894/1095894.html</ref>

He then went into the Royal Artillery.<ref name="auto3"/>

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In 1942-43 he was in an Italian Prisoner of War camp.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000650/19421016/116/0004|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002312/19430427/023/0003|title=|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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Revision as of 23:17, 15 July 2022

Cliff Wilton
Birth nameClifford William Wilton
SchoolFettes College
UniversityGonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Rugby union career
Position(s) Flanker, Lock
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
1935
1936-37
1937-38
1937-38
1937-38
1939		 Fettesian-Lorettonians
Cambridge University
London Scottish
Territorial Army XV
Northern
Services XV		 ()
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
1937 Scotland Possibles ()
94th President of the Scottish Rugby Union
In office
1980–1981
Preceded byJimmy Ross
Succeeded byFraser MacAllister

Clifford William Wilton (15 March 1916 - 16 July 1987) was a Scottish rugby union player and businessman. He was the 94th President of the Scottish Rugby Union.[1]

Early life and education

Grandson of Sir Thomas Wilton, founder of Renwick Wilton & Co., coal merchants and travel agents, Clifford William Wilton was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne and educated at Fettes College, then Caius College, Cambridge (Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)|MA), and Gray's Inn, from where he was called to the Bar and thus qualified as a barrister.[2][3]

Business career

Wilton had a successful business career, becoming executive chairman of Renwick Wilton & Dobson (Holdings) Ltd and associated companies, and chairman of the Western Fuel Company.[4]

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Wilton played rugby for Fettes College,[5] After Fettes he played for Fettesian-Lorettonians in 1935.[6] then for Caius College at the University of Cambridge;[7] where he played for Cambridge University.[5][8][9][10] While at Cambridge he was fined £5 for driving a sports car without insurance in October 1936.[11] He scored a try against the University of Oxford in the 1936 match.[12]

In 1937 he played for London Scottish.[13][14] While based in Northumberland with the Territorial Army he also played for Northern.[15]

He played for a Territorial Army XV in 1937[16] and 1938[17][18] and a Services XV in 1939.[19]

Provincial career

He made the Scotland Possibles side in 1937.[20]

Administrative career

He was Honorary Secretary of the Four Nations tour committee. He had to make a statement confirming that the tour to South Africa would be going ahead despite condemnation of the apartheid regime in 1961: 'We have great respect for the opinions of these different bodies, but so far as we are concerned our plans, which were made some time ago, are going ahead.'[21]

Wilton was a member of the Scottish Rugby Union since 1964.[22]

He was on the board of the IRB from 1972 to 1980.[22]

Wilton became the 94th President of the Scottish Rugby Union. He served the standard one year from 1980 to 1981.[1][23][24]

The Newcastle Journal had to apologise to Wilton on 12 June 1985 when they stated he had died. In fact, it was another past president of the Scottish Rugby Union Charlie Drummond who had died.[25]

Military career

He was a 2nd Lieutenant in the 72nd (Northumberland) Field Brigade of the Territorial Army in 1937.[5][26] He later served with the Royal Artillery.[17] In 1942-43 he was in an Italian Prisoner of War camp.[27][28]

Personal life

In 1939, Wilton married Alice Linda Travers, a tap dancer and former actress, sister to Bill Travers and Linden Travers.[29][30][31] They had three daughters, the second of whom being the actress Penelope Wilton. He lived at 86, Lexham Gardens, Kensington, London W8, and was a member of the Constitutional Club, the City Livery Club, and the British Sportsman's Club.[32] He died 16 July 1987.[33]

References

  1. ^ a b "Scottish Rugby" (PDF). s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com. 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  2. ^ County Cricket Club Heritage Archive: Players, Clifford Wilton, Association of Cricket Historians and Statisticians; URL= https://heritage.derbyshireccc.com/Archive/Players/1095/1095894/1095894.html
  3. ^ Leviathan, the Business Who's who- A Biographical Dictionary of Chairmen, Chief Executives and Managing Directors of British-registered Companies, ed. Ruth Dinning, Leviathan House, 1972, p. 398
  4. ^ Leviathan, the Business Who's who- A Biographical Dictionary of Chairmen, Chief Executives and Managing Directors of British-registered Companies, ed. Ruth Dinning, Leviathan House, 1972, p. 398
  5. ^ a b c https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002692/19370319/108/0007 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000681/19351231/219/0014 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000513/19361130/112/0010 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000337/19361208/177/0010 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000681/19361130/399/0019 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19361211/129/0011 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000541/19361127/490/0021 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002784/19361210/129/0008 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19371129/357/0004 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19380228/428/0015 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002445/19371108/166/0009 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002445/19371211/270/0014 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  17. ^ a b https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001973/19381202/482/0022 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  18. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19381203/694/0023 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  19. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001547/19391219/246/0010 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  20. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002784/19370107/066/0006 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  21. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002134/19611223/146/0007 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  22. ^ a b https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/19810330/366/0017 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  23. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19800126/243/0022 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  24. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/19800630/514/0025 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  25. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002240/19850612/162/0013 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  26. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19370306/448/0009 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  27. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000650/19421016/116/0004 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  28. ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002312/19430427/023/0003 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  29. ^ Powell, Lucy (9 June 2008). "Penelope Wilton, the winner of discontent". The Times. London, UK. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
  30. ^ "Acting Alumni Win Big at Olivier Awards". Csm.arts.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  31. ^ Billington, Michael (8 January 2015). "Massey, Daniel Raymond". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/69552. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  32. ^ Leviathan, the Business Who's who- A Biographical Dictionary of Chairmen, Chief Executives and Managing Directors of British-registered Companies, ed. Ruth Dinning, Leviathan House, 1972, p. 398
  33. ^ County Cricket Club Heritage Archive: Players, Clifford Wilton, Association of Cricket Historians and Statisticians; URL= https://heritage.derbyshireccc.com/Archive/Players/1095/1095894/1095894.html
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