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{{Short description|Scottish sportsman (1869–1934)}}
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| birth_place      = [[Edinburgh]], Scotland
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| death_place      = [[Edinburgh]], Scotland<ref>{{cite web |url=http://curlinghistory.blogspot.ca/2013/11/curling-at-1924-winter-olympics-part-1.html |title = Curling History: Curling at the 1924 Winter Olympics: Part 1 – The GB Curlers| date=6 November 2013 }}</ref>
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  | office      = President of the Scottish Rugby Union
  | term_start  = 1925
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  | predecessor = [[Robert Campbell MacKenzie]]
  | successor   = [[James Aikman Smith]]
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  | order       = 46th
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'''Robin Welsh''' (20 October 1869 – 21 October 1934)<ref>[http://www.espnscrum.com/scotland/rugby/player/1145.html Robin Welsh rugby profile] Scrum.com</ref> was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] sportsman who represented the [[Royal Caledonian Curling Club]] as a [[curling|curler]] in the Winter Olympics, represented Scotland in [[tennis]]<ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Robin Welsh |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/we/robin-welsh-1.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418033152/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/we/robin-welsh-1.html |archivedate=2020-04-18}}</ref> and played international [[rugby union]] for [[Scotland national rugby union team|Scotland]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.espn.co.uk/scotland/rugby/player/1145.html |title = Robin Welsh {{!}} Rugby Union {{!}} Players and Officials {{!}} ESPN Scrum}}</ref>

==Rugby Union career==

===Amateur career===

He played for [[Watsonian FC|Watsonians]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Y1lEAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8LEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1362%2C5396884 |title = The Glasgow Herald – Google News Archive Search}}</ref>

===Provincial career===

He played for [[Edinburgh District (rugby union)|Edinburgh District]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Y1lEAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8LEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1362%2C5396884 |title = The Glasgow Herald – Google News Archive Search}}</ref> He also played for [[Cities District (rugby union)|Cities District]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/18941224/033/0003 |title=Register |access-date=29 August 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref>

===International career===

He was capped four times for Scotland between 1895 and 1896.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.espn.co.uk/statsguru/rugby/player/1145.html?class=1;template=results;type=player;view=match |title = Rugby Union – ESPN Scrum – Statsguru – Player analysis – Robin Welsh – Test matches}}</ref>

===Referee career===

He was an international referee. He refereed the England versus Ireland match in 1902;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/match/19048.html |title = Rugby Union – ESPN Scrum – England v Ireland at Leicester}}</ref> the Wales versus England match in 1903;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/match/19052.html |title = Rugby Union – ESPN Scrum – Wales v England at Swansea}}</ref> and the Ireland versus England match in 1905.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/match/19074.html |title = Rugby Union – ESPN Scrum – Ireland v England at Cork}}</ref>

He refereed in the [[Scottish Unofficial Championship]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/19050109/054/0004 |title=Register |access-date=29 August 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000954/19041223/057/0004 |title=Register |access-date=29 August 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/19010121/069/0004 |title=Register |access-date=29 August 2023 |url-access=subscription |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]}}</ref>

===Administrative career===

He was [[President of the Scottish Rugby Union|President]] of the [[Scottish Rugby Union]] for the period 1925 to 1926.<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]]}}</ref>

==Curling career==

He was part of the [[Royal Caledonian Curling Club]] team which won the first [[Olympic Gold medal]] in curling at the [[inaugural Winter Olympics]] in [[Chamonix]], [[France]], in 1924.

==See also==
* [[Curling at the 1924 Winter Olympics]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{sports links}}

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