Frank Fasson
Birth name | Francis Hamilton Fasson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Date of birth | 21 September 1877 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Peebles, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 23 October 1955 | (aged 78)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Jedburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Francis Hamilton (Frank) Fasson was a Scotland international rugby union player. He played at Half back.[1]
Life
[edit]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.[2]
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
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]He played for Cambridge University.[3]
He then played for London Scottish and Edinburgh Wanderers.
Provincial career
[edit]Fasson played for the Anglo-Scots in 1898.[3]
International career
[edit]He was capped 5 times for Scotland from 1900 to 1902.[4]
Family
[edit]He married Lilias Clara Bruce and was father to Tony Fasson a hero of the Second World War.
References
[edit]- ^ "Francis Hamilton Fasson". ESPN scrum.
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office directory 1910
- ^ a b https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000295/18981226/139/0006 – via British Newspaper Archive.
{{cite web}}
: Missing or empty|title=
(help) - ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Frank Fasson - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
- 1877 births
- 1955 deaths
- Scottish rugby union players
- Scotland international rugby union players
- Cambridge University R.U.F.C. players
- Rugby union players from Peebles
- Scottish Exiles (rugby union) players
- London Scottish F.C. players
- Edinburgh Wanderers RFC players
- Rugby union halfbacks
- Scottish rugby union biography stubs