Ernest Still

{{Short description|England international rugby union player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Use British English|date=August 2012}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Ernest Still | image = | birth_name = {{nowrap|Ernest Robert Still}} | nickname = | birth_date = 14 July 1852 | birth_place = Epsom<ref name="Scrum">[http://www.espnscrum.com/england/rugby/player/310.html Ernest Still Profile on scrum.com]</ref> | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1931|11|23|1852|7|14}} | death_place = (registered in) Epsom | height = | weight = | ru_position = Forward | repteam1 = {{nrut|England}} | repcaps1 = 1 | reppoints1 = | ru_ntupdate = | repyears1 = 1873-1873 | amatyears1 = - | ru_clubupdate = | apps1 = | points1 = | amatteam1 = Ravenscourt Park | occupation = | school = Rugby School | university = Brasenose College, Oxford }}

'''Ernest Still''' (1852-1931) was a rugby union international representing England from 1873 to 1873.<ref name="Scrum"/>

==Early life== Ernest Still was born on 14 July 1852 in Epsom,<ref name="Scrum"/> the fifth son of Robert Still of Sutton in Surrey.<ref>Joseph Foster (ed), ''Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886: Their Parentage, Birthplace, and Year of Birth, with a Record of Their Degrees: Sabin-Zouch'' p1355, (Parker and co.), 1891</ref> He attended Rugby School and studied law at Brasenose College, Oxford, from which he received his BA in 1874 and his MA in 1880.

==Rugby union career== In the Scotland vs England match, he made his international debut on 3 March 1873 at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow.<ref name="Scrum"/>

==Career and later life== Ernest became a solicitor and later married Amy Gordon Churchill, the daughter of Charles Churchill. Their son, Francis Churchill Still, married Margaret Burdett Money-Coutts, daughter of Francis Burdett Thomas Coutts-Nevill, 5th Lord Latymer and Edith Ellen Churchill, on 8 June 1907. He died on 14 December 1937.<ref>[http://thepeerage.com/p1770.htm#i17692 the peerage.com]</ref>

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