Frank Fasson

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'''Francis Hamilton (Frank) Fasson''' was a Scotland international rugby union player. He played at Half back.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/scotland/rugby/player/1413.html|title=Francis Hamilton Fasson|website=ESPN scrum|access-date=25 February 2020|archive-date=6 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130706101522/http://www.espnscrum.com/scotland/rugby/player/1413.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Life==

He was the son of Charles Hamilton Fasson MD, Superintendent of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, by his second wife, Margaret Sarah Robertson, who died when Frank was five.

He trained as a lawyer and in 1910 is listed as Francis H. Fasson WS living at 10 Murrayfield Drive in West Edinburgh.<ref>Edinburgh Post Office directory 1910</ref>

In the First World War he served as a Captain in the Scottish Horse regiment.

He died in Jedburgh on 23 October 1955.

==Rugby Union career==

===Amateur career===

He played for Cambridge University.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000295/18981226/139/0006|title=|via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>

He then played for London Scottish and Edinburgh Wanderers.

===Provincial career===

Fasson played for the Anglo-Scots in 1898.<ref name="auto"/>

===International career===

He was capped 5 times for Scotland from 1900 to 1902.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.espnscrum.com/statsguru/rugby/player/1413.html|title=Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Frank Fasson - Test matches|website=ESPN scrum}}</ref>

==Family==

He married Lilias Clara Bruce and was father to Tony Fasson a hero of the Second World War.

==References== {{reflist|2}}

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