Walter Irvine (21 October 1865 – 26 January 1919) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
[10] It was said that only 2 other players could rank with him as a tackling forward:- Mark Coxon Morrison and Bob Ainslie.
[11] The 1886 Scotland match with England offered Irvine a try-scoring opportunity to win the game, when he attempted to catch a low off-load from a Charles Reid break; but Irvine failed to collect the ball.
From midfield it was a single-handed break clear of the forwards and straight through the English three-quarter line.
You saw only two men on the field, the gigantic figure bearing down on his old schoolmate, Charles Sample, the English back.
Then another flashed into view, and you saw Reid throw the ball down from his great height, hard and low, and Walter Irvine failing to pick it up on the run.
He joined the Foreign Department of Indian Government and worked on the Seistan Arbitration Commission, which formalised the boundaries between Persia and Afghanistan.