Martin Baird Moore Tweed (12 May 1890 – 23 April 1974) was a medical doctor and sportsman from New Zealand who played rugby union at an international level, touring Argentina with the 1910 Combined British rugby union side, an early incarnation of the British & Irish Lions.
[3] Whilst at Guy's Hospital Tweed represented the medical school in rugby union.
B. Danby—all New Zealand medical students at Guy's Hospital— were on the winning side yesterday, in the match against St. Thomas Hospital team.
The tour was not officially sanctioned by the four home unions and in fact was promoted as the English Rugby Union side, but given it contained at least three Scots as well as other nationalities, the Argentine press referred to it as the Combined British and it is often retrospectively referred to as an early incarnation of the British & Irish Lions.
Before his participation in the First World War, Tweed was one of those invited to the 19 December 1914 reception given by the High Commissioner to the captain and officers of H.M.S.
), who followed his fathers footsteps and studied at Guy's Hospital as a Gynaecologist, Phillipa Tweed (born 24 December 1922) and John Moore Tweed (born in Carterton on 27 September 1920; died 19 February 2013), and who went on himself to become a Physician and Rheumatologist, being awarded the MBE in 1991.