{{Short description|British Lions & Scotland international rugby union player}} {{Other people||Robert McMillan (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}} {{Use British English|date=September 2017}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Robert MacMillan | image = | caption = | birth_name = Robert Gordon MacMillan | birth_date = {{birth date|1865|4|3|df=y}} | birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland | death_date = {{Death date and age|1936|4|3|1865|4|3|df=yes}} | death_place = Cirencester, England | height = | weight = | position = Forward | amatyears1 = | amatteam1 = West of Scotland | amatteam2 = London Scottish | amatteam3 = Edinburgh University | ru_amclubcaps = | ru_amclubpoints = | ru_amupdate = | provinceyears1 = 1887 | provinceyears2 = 1893 | provinceyears3 = 1894 | province1 = Glasgow District | province2 = Middlesex | province3 = Provinces District | provinceapps1 = | provincepoints1 = | repteam1 = Scotland | repteam2 = British and Irish Lions | repyears1 = 1887–97 | repyears2 = 1891 | repcaps1 = 21 | repcaps2 = 3 | reppoints1 = 0 | reppoints2 = 0 | ru_ntupdate = | occupation = Insurance underwriter | school = Merchiston Castle School | university = Edinburgh University | module2 = {{Infobox officeholder | embed = yes | office = President of the Scottish Rugby Union | term_start = 1900 | term_end = 1901 | predecessor = Ian MacIntyre | successor = George Neilson | prior_term = | order = 27th }} }}
'''Robert "Judy" Gordon MacMillan''' (3 April 1865 – 3 April 1936) was a Scottish international rugby union player.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://en.espn.co.uk/scotland/rugby/player/794.html|title = Robert Gordon MacMillan}}</ref>
==Rugby union career==
===Amateur career===
MacMillan played club rugby for Edinburgh University, West of Scotland<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002683/18891118/100/0007|title=Register |access-date=28 August 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> and London Scottish.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19360404/094/0014|title=Register |access-date=28 August 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>
===Provincial career===
MacMillan was capped by Glasgow District to play in the inter-city on 3 December 1887.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mvtfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_rEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4854%2C5861342| title = The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search}}</ref>
He was selected for Middlesex to play against Yorkshire in the 1893 English County Championship. Five Scots were selected for Middlesex: Gregor MacGregor, George Campbell, William Wotherspoon, MacMillan and Frederick Goodhue, all with London Scottish who played in the county. He played in that match, but Yorkshire won and then secured the championship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000452/18930131/046/0003|title=Register |access-date=28 August 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>
On 22 December 1894 he played for the Provinces District against the Cities District side.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/18941224/033/0003|title=Register |access-date=28 August 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>
===International career===
MacMillan played international rugby for Scotland for over 11 seasons, and in 1891 he represented the British Isles team on their South Africa tour.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://en.espn.co.uk/statsguru/rugby/player/794.html?class=1;template=results;type=player;view=match|title = Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Judy MacMillan - Test matches}}</ref>
===Administrative career===
MacMillan was made vice-president in 1899 when he was still with London Scottish.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000295/18991013/170/0006|title=Register |access-date=28 August 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>
He became the 27th President of the Scottish Rugby Union. He served the 1900–1901 term in office.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sru-files/files/SR_RR1819_digital.pdf |title=Scottish Rugby Record 2018/19 |date= |website=Scottish Rugby |access-date=22 March 2020 |archive-date=16 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116210013/https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sru-files/files/SR_RR1819_digital.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Family==
MacMillan was born in 1865, the eldest son of John Gordon MacMillan and Margaret Holmes.
==Outside of rugby==
MacMillan was an insurance underwriter for Lloyds,<ref>[http://www.clanmacmillan.org/Chief/Chief-Ancestors.htm The Chief's Immediate Ancestors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721102711/http://www.clanmacmillan.org/Chief/Chief-Ancestors.htm |date=21 July 2011 }} clanmacmillan.org</ref> between 1890 and 1923. In 1924 he became a non-underwriting member.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19360404/094/0014|title=Register |access-date=28 August 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>
MacMillan played cricket while at Merchiston Castle School.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002731/18820619/024/0002|title=Register |access-date=28 August 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref> He also liked rowing and golf.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000893/18980912/049/0003|title=Register |access-date=28 August 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>
==Death==
MacMillan owned Somerford House - an old vicarage, which he bought in 1922, rebuilt and added stables - in Somerford Keynes near Cirencester. He also had a house in Chelsea, and other lands. MacMillan was killed when out on a fox hunt in 1936 with the Vale of White Horse Hounds in Cirencester Park. These were owned by Earl Bathurst; MacMillan had hunted with Bathurst for years. He was killed on his 71st birthday - the hunt was organised to celebrate his birthday - when his horse refused to jump a stone wall and he was thrown from the horse, breaking his neck. The hounds were in full cry after the first fox of the day.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000320/19360404/016/0001|title=Register |access-date=28 August 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>
The gross value of MacMillan's estate was estimated at £352,304, 17 shillings and 7d. For the most part MacMillan's estate went to his wife; most of the rest to other family, he had no children; but some of the bequests on his death went to his servants depending on their length of service.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000320/19360629/022/0003|title=Register |access-date=28 August 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist|2}}
{{British and Irish Lions 1891}}
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