David Revell "Darkie" Bedell-Sivright (8 December 1880 – 5 September 1915) was a Scottish international rugby union forward who captained both Scotland and the British Isles.

The next year Bedell-Sivright was appointed captain for the British Isles team that toured Australia and New Zealand.

Despite not playing, Bedell-Sivright pulled the British team from the field for 20 minutes after disputing the decision by a local referee to send-off one of their players.

A surgeon by profession, he joined the Royal Navy during the First World War, and died on active service during the Gallipoli Campaign.

[4] His brother John played for Cambridge University RFC, and gained a single international cap in 1902.

After one international he rugby tackled a cart horse in Princes Street in Edinburgh after apparently laying down on a city tram track – this held up the traffic for an hour as no policeman would approach him.

[9] He was posted to the Hawke Battalion of the Royal Naval Division stationed at Gallipoli during the Dardanelles Campaign in May 1915.

[19][20] A captain of a team, like a general of an army, has an important part to play, and with every point he must be acquainted, or else disaster will almost invariably befall his side.

Bedell-Sivright was not playing, but pulled his team from the field for 20 minutes while disputing the decision with Dolan and the other officials.

[7] Following the match Bedell-Sivright accused the referee of incompetence, and an inquiry eventually cleared Dobson of using indecent language, but he became the first British Isles player ever ordered off.

[26] A New Zealand representative side was scheduled to tour the British Isles in 1905, and Bedell-Sivright did not report favourably on their chances of success.

After a year he became bored of jackarooing (stock-rearing), and decided to leave and head back to Scotland to study medicine.

[29] Rugby writer Winston McCarthy described the Scottish forwards as "fast, vigorous and good dribblers", and they led 7–6 at half-time.

[28][29] In 1906 the South Africans were touring the British Isles, and Bedell-Sivright was selected for the Scotland side that defeated them 6–0.

[31] Hence he became the first Home Nations' player to contest a Test match against each of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

[16] Bedell-Sivright was one of the inaugural inductees into the Scottish Rugby Hall of Fame in 2010,[14] and in 2013 was inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame in a ceremony that honoured players from the British & Irish Lions (as the British Isles team is now known) and Australia during that year's Lions tour of Australia.

[33] Writing in 1919, rugby journalist and author E. H. D. Sewell said of Bedell-Sivright "If a plebiscite was taken on the question: "Who was the hardest forward who ever played International football?"

"[16] On hearing of his death, it was reported that:[35] It is cabled that Dr. D. R. Bedell-Sivright, who captained the British team in Australia and New Zealand in 1904, has died at the Dardanelles.

A man of superb physique, it is hard to think that he has died an ordinary death at his age, and not to a bullet from the enemy.