Mike Campbell-Lamerton Rugby player
Colonel Michael John "Mike" Campbell-Lamerton (1 August 1933–17 March 2005) was a British army officer and rugby union player. Despite being a career soldier on active service, he would captain the Scotland rugby team a number of times.Richard Bath writes of him that he was:"A strong scrummager who held his own in the at the line-out and was a considerable presence in the loose, Campbell-Lamerton excelled in the second row for Scotland from his first cap in 1961 until his 23rd in 1966."Allan Massie provides a more colourful description of him:"The sight of captain M.J. Campbell-Lamerton of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment surging round the tail of a line-out like an enraged hippopotamus was one of the most stirring spectacles in Scottish Rugby. A huge man, 6 feet 5 inches and often over 17 stones, he made an abrupt and unheralded entry into top-class Rugby for a Combined Services team against a Scottish Select at Murrayfield in December 1960. The game was played in a thick haar, and almost the only impression spectators retained of it was of this man-mountain surging out of mist as a mastodon from a primeval swamp. It took him into the Scottish team and he stayed there til 1966 to win twenty-three caps."↑ ↑ 2.0 2.1 ↑