Hamish Bryce
| Birth name | Robert Donaldson Hamish Bryce | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 12 November 1941 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hamish Bryce (born 12 November 1941) is a former Scotland international rugby union player.[1] and business man.
Rugby union career[edit]
Amateur career[edit]
He played for London Scottish.[2], Bristol Rugby Club.[3] as well as the Captain of the Combined Services and the Barbarians.
Provincial career[edit]
He played for the Anglo-Scots district side.[2]
International career[edit]
He was capped twice by Scotland 'B', from 1971 to 1972.
He went on to secure his first and only senior international cap for Scotland in 1973,[4] coming on as a replacement prop against Ireland.[5]
Business career[edit]
Bryce received a Bachelor of Mechanical Sciences from Cambridge University in 1966. He joined the British Army as was in the Royal Engineers. Becoming a chartered engineer, he held posts in various lighting firms; before becoming Chief Executive of the Thorn group [6] The Queen came to visit their Spennymoor Factory in 1995, along with the then leader of the Opposition Rt Hon Tony Blair [7].
He was also Chair of the London Business Resilience Group [8]
He was a member of the Design Council [9], whose purpose is to improve prosperity in the UK by enabling the best use of design in a modern global economy. It is a public body sponsored by the Department of Trade and Industry working across the public and private sectors.
Personal Life[edit]
His wife Jean Bryce (nee Robinson) was an officer in the British Army at 19. He has two children. James leads the global Infrastructure team of the CPPID [10] and his daughter Fiona runs a political consultancy, Keystone Consulting, that has along with other sucesseses secured business rates relief for retailers [11].
References[edit]
- ^ "Robert Donaldson Hamish Bryce". ESPN scrum.
- ^ a b "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ "Records of Bristol Rugby Club [founded as Bristol Football Club]".
- ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Hamish Bryce - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
- ^ "Scotland v Ireland". ESPN scrum.
- ^ "Robert Donaldson Hamish BRYCE personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK".
- ^ https://shop.memorylane.co.uk/mirror/0000to0099-00090/queen-elizabeth-ii-prince-phillip-visit-thorn-21329165.html
- ^ "Business preparing for terrorist attack". Financial Times. 17 August 2005.
- ^ https://www.wired-gov.net/wg/wg-news-1.nsf/54e6de9e0c383719802572b9005141ed/94e93be5918dbe91802572ab004bac0a?OpenDocument
- ^ https://www.cppinvestments.com/about-us/our-investment-teams/teams-real-assets/teams-infrastructure/
- ^ https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-business-rate-relief/retail-discount