Eric Loudoun-Shand

His father, who originated from Scotland, adopted his middle name Loudoun as the first part of a double-barrelled surname, and all members of the family followed suit.

Arriving in the Island in 1864 Mr. Loudoun-Shand did a lot of planting chiefly in the Dimbula and Dickoya districts and in 1879 and 1880 was elected Chairman of the Planters' Association of Ceylon in what was a difficult period.

[4] These five would all go on to play in the 1913 Varsity match, (and also produced the captains of both Oxford and Cambridge in 1919), and all served in the First World War.

He joined the King's Royal Rifle Corps and during the war rose to the rank of Major and received the Military Cross.

It was due to a chance encounter with Eric Loudoun-Shand that Greenwood was allowed to captain the Cambridge side that year.

It was within the prerogative of the Oxford captain to deny Cambridge the chance to field Greenwood, who had left the university just prior to the war.

Eric Loudoun-Shand played that match with a severely injured arm, an injury from the Great War.