Birth name | Alexander Gordon Cairns | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 26 April 1878 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Hamilton, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 8 April 1968 | (aged 89)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alexander Cairns (1878–1968) was a Scotland international rugby union player[1]
Cairns played for Watsonians. He was nicknamed Fatty.
He was capped by Edinburgh District in 1902 playing in the Inter-City match against Glasgow District.[2]
He was capped 12 times for the Scotland international side, from 1903 to 1906.[3]