Eddie McKeating (1 September 1936 – 2 May 2021) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
[2] His first match for the 1st XV at the Edinburgh club was at emergency cover at scrum-half, when he was only 15.
He played for London Scottish and the military Combined Services team when there.
[3] He later moved to play for West of Scotland when he was promoted by William Thyne & Co.
[7] He had a career working in packaging, helped by former Scotland player Douglas Muir who had risen to be Managing Director in the firm William Thyne & Co.[citation needed] Through this career he moved first to Glasgow; before settling in Newcastle, as a Sales Director for Fields Packaging in the 1980s.