Norman George Robertson Mair MBE (7 October 1928 – 7 December 2014)[1][2] was a Scottish international rugby union and cricket player.
On 13 November 1928 his father died in a fire at the family home, 9 Corennie Drive, Morningside, Edinburgh.
[3] He was selected for the provincial Edinburgh District side and played in the Scottish Inter-District Championship.
[10] Bill McLaren rated Mair as one of the best rugby journalists that Scotland produced: Writing of the Australian player Mark Ella, he once said: "Ella has hands so adhesive that when he fumbled a ball against Scotland (in 1984) you would not have been surprised to see those Australians of the appropriate religious persuasion cross themselves"[12] Mair was always outspoken in his opinions.
In the early fifties, for example, criticising the large number of new caps in each game in 1953 and 1954, he said that he consider the "inhabitants of lunatic asylums... had a fair grievance while the S.R.U.