Thomas Arthur Nelson

[1] He was born on 22 September 1876, the son of the publisher Thomas Nelson and his wife Jessie Kemp.

[4] Nelson obtained an estate at Achnacloich, on the shore of Loch Etive near Oban, Argyll.

[7] He played for a combined Edinburgh Academy - Watsons College schoolboy side in January 1895.

[12] Nelson was named in the Anglo-Scots side to face South of Scotland District on 25 December 1897.

[14] He was originally named in the Provinces District side in December 1898, but his selection fell through.

[5] At the First World War, Nelson became a Captain with the Lothians and Border Horse attached to the Machine Gun Corps.

[24] He is also memorialised on his parents grave in Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh and on the Scottish Rugby Union War Memorial at Murrayfield Stadium.

The Hull Daily Mail headlined A Publishers Fortune detailing that Nelson of Achnacloich in Argyll left an estate of £470,782.